Chandigarh: Upset over the farm ordinances passed in the Lok Sabha, a 55-year-old farmer in Mansa district allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison. This comes after the BJP's oldest ally Shrimoni Akhali Dal (SAD) broke its ties with the ruling NDA terming the ordinances as 'anti-farmer'.
The farmer committed suicide at a protest site in Badal village, the hometown of the Badals, in Muktsar district. Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) state secretary Shingara Singh Mann said farmer Pritam Singh, 60, was disturbed over the passing of the agriculture Bills in the Lok Sabha.
The farmer feared that the Bills would be against the farmers. The farmers have been staging a protest at the Badal village just outside the residence of former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal against the Bills brought by the Central government.
Akali Dal's lone minister in the Narendra Modi government, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, resigned from the Union Cabinet on Thursday to protest the Farm bills.
While announcing the decision to withdraw the minister from the Union Cabinet, SAD President Sukhbir Badal said the party would continue to support the government and the BJP but will oppose the anti-farmer policies.