Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced that the family of Shubhkaran Singh, who died during the farmers’ protest on the Khanuri border, will be given financial assistance of ₹1 crore and a government job to his younger sister. He also promised that legal action would be taken against the culprits.
Meanwhile, the family of 22-year-old farmer Shubhkaran Singh, who died during clashes at the Punjab-Haryana border earlier this week, has turned down the Rs 1 crore ex gratia offered by the state government. “We are seeking justice for our child and it can’t be equated with money or job,” his family members said. Farmer leaders, meanwhile, have said that a post mortem of the youth will not be conducted until the guilty are punished.
Singh (21), a native of Bathinda, was killed and 12 police personnel injured in clashes at Khanauri border point on the Punjab-Haryana border on Wednesday. The incident took place when some protesting farmers were trying to head towards barricades.
A 21-year-old farmer died on Wednesday after protestors relaunched their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march as they disagreed with the Centre’s proposals on a five-year plan for minimum support price (MSP).
The farmer, identified as Subhkaran Singh, a resident of Baloke village in Punjab’s Bathinda district, was killed and a few others injured following a clash between the security personnel and the protesting farmers at Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border.
Mahesh Chaudhary of the Kisan Mazdoor Union spearheading the ‘Dilli Chalo’ agitation said they have received the support of the Bharatiya Adivasi Party (BAP), which will support their movement and their Demand Charter at more than 200 blocks across South India, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat by submitting a memorandum to the President. “This marks the first time that the demands of laborers and tribals will be vigorously raised in a national-level farmers’ movement,” said Chaudhary.
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