A medical team on its way to conduct a health check-up for fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal met with a tragic accident near Jhore Majra village in Samana early this morning, leaving team members injured.
The team is injured and admitted in Rajindra hospital, Patiala.
Dallewal, who has been on hunger strike for nearly a month, demands the government accept the recommendations by the parliamentary committee and enact a law that ensures Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said Dallewal has shown selfless commitment to his cause and he expressed Rahul Gandhi’s concerns for the health of the farmer leader. Farmer unions have declared candle marches across the nation on December 24 at 5:30 p.m. and symbolic hunger strikes at tehsil and district levels on December 26, a month after Dallewal’s fast.
The Supreme Court has nudged Punjab authorities to persuade Dallewal to seek medical attention, even as Dallewal had written to the court himself seeking intervention to push the central government to meet some of the farmers’ demands.
Farmers have been stationed at Shambhu and Khanauri border points since February 13, after security forces blocked their march to Delhi. Earlier this month, a group of 101 farmers made three unsuccessful attempts to enter Delhi, stopped by Haryana police.
