A 75-year-old farmer from Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh, who was protesting against the Centre’s agricultural laws, died by suicide at t...
A 75-year-old farmer from Rampur district in Uttar Pradesh, who was protesting against the Centre’s agricultural laws, died by suicide at the Ghazipur border on Saturday, PTI reported, citing the police.
A suicide note written in Gurmukhi script was recovered from Kashmir Singh, according to Deputy Superintendent of Police of Indirapuram Anshu Jain. In the purported suicide note, Singh expressed his anguish that though some people from Punjab died during the farmers’ protest, no one from Uttar Pradesh or Uttarakhand had sacrificed their life. He also wrote that the new laws made by the government were not in the interests of farmers.
“We received information that a person had died at the protest site in the morning, following which a police vehicle was sent,” said Superintendents of Police, City II Ghaziabad, Gyanendra Kumar, The Indian Express reported. “He was declared dead on arrival at the nearest hospital.”
Singh, who was a native of Bilaspur in Uttar Pradesh, requested the Sikh community to help his family marry off his two grand-daughters and to resolve the domestic problems being faced by his married daughter.
Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait expressed his profound grief at Singh’s death and demanded that the government provide a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to...
