A 45-year-old farmer died allegedly by suicide on Wednesday at Haryana’s Singhu border with Delhi, The Indian Express reported.
Singhu border is one of the sites where farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been sitting in protest against the Centre’s agricultural laws since November last year.
Farmers fear that the laws will bring about corporate dominance of the agricultural sector and have demanded that the Centre to repeal them. The government, on the other hand, has refused to accept their demand. Both the sides have held several rounds of talks to try and resolve the deadlock.
The farmer who died at protest site on Wednesday was upset about the deadlock, The Indian Express reported, quoting an official from the group with which he was associated.
The deceased farmer was identified as Gurpreet Singh from Roorkee village in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district.
“In his conversation with farmers over the past two days, he [Gurpreet Singh] had…