The year 2024 saw farmer and farm labourer groups from Punjab resuming their protests highlighting the agrarian distress and asking the Union government to enact a law for guaranteed buying of their crops at the minimum support price. With the farmers not willing to relent, on November 26, 2024, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a veteran leader, started an indefinite hunger strike …
Bharti Kisan Union chief Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who had been on a fast unto death to press for farmers’ demands, broke his hunger strike on Thursday after Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal announced that consensus had been reached on various demands following marathon talks. While commenting on the demand for Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s apology over his remarks on …
Bharti Kisan Union president Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Monday said he would continue his fast unto death till the Punjab government comes up with a resolution to the various demands of farmers. If the government does not accept then this fast unto death and our protests will continue like this,” Dallewal told reporters in Faridkot. He said farmers were compelled …
