57-year-old protesting farmer dies on Delhi-UP border: officials


57-year-old protesting farmer dies at Delhi-UP border: officials

The farmer has been identified as Galtan Singh from the Baghpat district of UP

New Delhi:

A 57-year-old farmer died on Friday while protesting on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border against the three controversial farm laws enacted by the center last year. According to local authorities, the farmer appears to have died of hypothermia, a life-threatening condition in which the body temperature drops suddenly, caused by the cold wave that has gripped the national capital and its surroundings.

“Prima facie, it appears that he died due to hypothermia, but we were unable to do a detailed investigation because the farmers refused to allow a post-mortem examination,” the Ghaziabad medical director’s office told NDTV.

The farmer has been identified as Galtan Singh from the Baghpat district of UP. He had been protesting together with other farmers on the Ghazipur border.

“Another farmer protesting today died because of the government’s ego. Today, 57-year-old Galtan Singh, the son of Mohar Singh, died of a cold heart attack. So far, 46 farmers have died protesting (the laws) , but the government is not ashamed, soon its arrogance will end. Farmers will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for this movement, “the protesting farmers said in a statement.

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and several states have been protesting the three laws in and around the national capital for weeks. They fear that the laws will result in their exit from traditional crop markets, leading to their exploitation. They also allege that with these laws, the center wants to eliminate the minimum support price guarantee.

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However, the government says the laws are not intended to end the existing system, but to provide better avenues for farmers to sell their crops. It also states that the laws will eliminate the role of intermediaries.

The center and protesting farmers held the sixth round of talks on Wednesday. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar later said the meeting “ended on a very good note” and that there was agreement on two of the four farmers’ demands.

A joint front of 40 peasant unions leading the protests warned today that it will intensify the agitation if its demands to repeal the three laws and grant legal status to the MSP are not met in the next round of the meeting, scheduled for January 4.

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