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Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal calls off indefinite hunger strike | Latest News India

Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal calls off indefinite hunger strike | Latest News India

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Apr 06, 2025 05:08 PM IST Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal began an indefinite hunger strike on November 26 last year to press the Centre to accept the farmers’ demands. Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal ended his indefinite hunger strike on Sunday, which he had launched in November last year to press for key farmer demands, including a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal made the announcement at a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ held in Sirhind, located in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district.(PTI file) He made the announcement at a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat‘ held in Sirhind, located in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district. “You (farmers) all have asked me to end the fast unto death. I am indebted to you for taking care of the agitation. I respect your sentiments. I accept your order,” Dallewal said while addressing the gathering. His decision came a day after union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and union minister of state for railways Ravneet Singh Bittu urged him to call off the fast. What …

Jagjit Singh Dallewal breaks fast as farmers’ protests ease at borders | Latest News India

Jagjit Singh Dallewal breaks fast as farmers’ protests ease at borders | Latest News India

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Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who had been on a hunger strike since November 26, 2024, demanding systemic agricultural reforms and legal guarantees for Minimum Support Price (MSP), ended his fast on Friday. During a hearing related to the blockade at Punjab-Haryana border points, the Punjab government informed the Supreme Court that Dallewal, leader of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), had accepted water. The SC had previously criticised the Punjab govt for failing to hospitalise Dallewal despite his deteriorating health. (PTI photo) “Mr. Dallewal has finally broken his fast and accepted water,” Punjab’s advocate general Gurminder Singh informed a bench comprising justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh. The bench welcomed the development. “This is good news. We have always maintained that he is a true farmer leader and has the best interests of the farming community at heart,” remarked justice Kant. Farmers, led by Dallewal under the banners of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, had been protesting along the Punjab-Haryana border since February 2024, demanding systemic agricultural reforms, legal guarantees for …

Farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal moved to PWD guest house after police crackdown at Shambhu border | Latest News India

Farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal moved to PWD guest house after police crackdown at Shambhu border | Latest News India

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Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was taken to PIMS Jalandhar late at night, was moved to a PWD guest house in the high-security Jalandhar Cantonment area on Thursday morning as Haryana and Punjab police began evicting protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border points, which had remained blocked for over a year. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was detained in Mohali before being transferred to Patiala on Wednesday.(PTI) Dallewal was detained on Wednesday evening and initially taken to the Commando Training Centre in Patiala before being moved to PIMS Hospital in Jalandhar. Sources told Hindustan Times that he was relocated around 1.30am. Earlier, he had been detained in Mohali before being transferred to Patiala. On Wednesday, Punjab Police detained several farmer leaders, including Jagjit Singh Dallewal and Sarwan Singh Pandher, in Mohali as they returned from a meeting with a central delegation led by Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Chandigarh. Farmer leader Guramneet Singh Mangat confirmed that Abhimanyu Kohar, Kaka Singh Kotra, and Manjit Singh Rai were also among those detained. …

Today in Politics: Centre to hold talks with protesting farmers in Chandigarh | Political Pulse News

Today in Politics: Centre to hold talks with protesting farmers in Chandigarh | Political Pulse News

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The Centre will hold a meeting with Punjab’s protesting farmers on Friday in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, thus ending a stalemate over the resumption of a dialogue with the agitators, who have been demanding a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops. Farmer leader Pandher spoke to reporters at Shambhu border, where a Kisan Mahapanchayat was held to mark the completion of one year of the ongoing agitation. He said that they will make efforts to move the Centre towards resolving the farmers’ issues in the meeting. Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar said that Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast, will make his best efforts to participate in the meeting to put forth farmers’ demands. Story continues below this ad He said that Dallewal will try to participate in the meeting but he is not keeping well. “Dallewal wants to attend the meeting to put forth farmers’ demands before the Centre,” Kohar said. Dallewal, who is the convener of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), has been on an indefinite hunger …

Fasting Dallewal given medical aid after govt invites protesting farmers for talks; Meet in Feb | Latest News India

Fasting Dallewal given medical aid after govt invites protesting farmers for talks; Meet in Feb | Latest News India

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Fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, the convener of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), was given medical aid on Sunday on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. This came as Dallewal agreed to take medical aid after the Centre invited the protesting farmers to a meeting in Chandigarh on February 14 to discuss their demands. A team of government doctors is administering IV fluids to fasting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal. (HT Photo/Karam Prakash) A team of government doctors administered Dallewal IV fluids. The farmer leader, however, continues his fast-unto-death protest. The 70-year-old leader has been protesting at the Khanauri border since November 26 to press the Centre to accept the farmers’ demands, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Besides a legally guaranteed MSP, the protesting farmers have been demanding a farm loan waiver, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in the electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013 and compensation …

Centre to hold meeting with protesting farmers on February 14; Dallewal takes medical aid

Centre to hold meeting with protesting farmers on February 14; Dallewal takes medical aid

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The Centre will hold a meeting with Punjab’s protesting farmers on February 14 in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, thus ending a stalemate over the resumption of a dialogue with the agitators, who have been demanding a legal guarantee on the MSP for crops. Following the announcement of the proposed meeting, farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto-death entered the 54th day on Saturday (January 18, 2025), agreed to take medical aid. However, he will not end his indefinite fast till a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops is given, said farmer leader Sukhjit Singh Hardojhande. Later, pictures showing Mr. Dallewal taking medical aid with an intravenous drip were released by the farmers. The breakthrough came after a delegation of officials from the Union agriculture ministry, led by Joint Secretary Priya Ranjan, met Mr. Dallewal and held a meeting with the representatives of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM), which are spearheading the agitation for the last 11 months. Following the announcement of the meeting on February …

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, on hunger strike since Nov 26, agrees to take medical aid | Latest News India

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, on hunger strike since Nov 26, agrees to take medical aid | Latest News India

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Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike since November 26, agreed to accept medical aid on Sunday, PTI reported quoting farmer leader Sukhjit Singh Hardojhande on Sunday. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on hunger strike since November 26, 2024. (ANI)(HT_PRINT) Despite this, Dallewal, whose fast-unto-death entered its 54th day, clarified that he will not end his indefinite fast till a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops is given to the farmers, Hardojhande informed. Sukhjit Singh Hardojhande, a fellow farmer leader, confirmed the decision to allow medical aid, explaining that Dallewal’s health had worsened, with the leader losing about 20 kilograms during the fasting period. While Dallewal’s condition had been described as “critical,” he had previously refused medical treatment to highlight the severity of his protest. The development comes after the Centre agreed to hold a meeting with Punjab’s protesting farmers to discuss their demands, on February 14 in Chandigarh. This meeting will mark an end to a stalemate over the resumption of a …

Submit comparative report on farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal’s condition, SC directs Punjab govt | India News

Submit comparative report on farmer leader Jagjit Dallewal’s condition, SC directs Punjab govt | India News

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The Supreme Court directed the Punjab Government on Wednesday to submit a comparative medical report on the condition of farmers’ leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been on a hunger strike at the Khanauri border since November, for evaluation by a medical board. Taking note of the state’s submissions about his health, a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N K Singh directed “the chief secretary to hand over a photostat (copy of) complete set of these reports to enable this court to take opinion about the medical/health condition of Dallewal from the medical board that may be asked to be constituted by the Director of AIIMS, Delhi.” The court ordered that “the reports shall be submitted during the course of the day to” its “Registrar, Judicial…who shall then coordinate with the Director, AIIMS and obtain the opinion of the experts based upon such reports.” During the previous hearing, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Punjab government, had told the court that the protesting farmers had agreed to meet the High-Powered Committee (HPC) constituted …

Supreme Court seeks Dallewal’s blood results as Punjab says his health is ‘stable’

Supreme Court seeks Dallewal’s blood results as Punjab says his health is ‘stable’

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Members of Samyukt Kisan Morcha meet farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast over various demands, at Khanauri border in Sangrur on January 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 15, 2025) directed the Punjab government to place on record a comparative chart of the blood tests of farmers’ leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on the 50th day of his fast-unto-death at the Khanauri border of Punjab and Haryana, even as the State submitted his health parameters were “stable”. A Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant ordered the Chief Secretary of Punjab to compile the results of blood evaluation done on Mr. Dallewal on December 19, December 24, December 30, January 3, January 9, and January 14. The compiled results, the top court said, would enable the apex court to take an expert opinion from a medical board it proposes to ask the Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, to constitute. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, for Punjab, submitted “effective steps” were underway …

Farmers to hold protest on Lohri in Punjab, burn copies of new farm market policy draft – India TV

Farmers to hold protest on Lohri in Punjab, burn copies of new farm market policy draft – India TV

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Image Source : PTI Farmers have been holding protests for the last few months. Farmers in Punjab are gearing up to hold a protest on the occasion of Lohri on Monday by burning copies of the draft of the new farm market policy. As per the information, this move is part of their ongoing resistance to the policy. The protest is expected to witness participation from members of Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and SKM Non-Political — both of which are already demonstrating at the Khanauri and Shambhu borders. Additionally, a key meeting to discuss the joint strategy is scheduled on Monday in Patran, where SKM’s six-member committee and farmer leaders from SKM Non-Political are set to deliberate on the next steps. Meanwhile, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a prominent farmer leader, has been on a hunger strike for the last 48 days. His prolonged fast shows the deep dissatisfaction and determination among the farmers to resist the implementation of the draft policy, as per farmer leaders. 70-year-old Dallewal has also written to several religious leaders and saints, urging them to impress …