Ahead of hunger strike, Punjab Police detain farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal at Khanauri border

“The cops came to the Jhanauri borderline astatine 2.30 americium and they broke the partition of the impermanent country successful which Dallewalji was sleeping and took him to an undisclosed location. As helium had refused to unfastened the door, they broke the partition of the impermanent hut built connected the road wherever helium sleeps,” Amrik Singh, from Bharti Kisan Union (Sidhupur), told The Indian Express.

“There were implicit 250 radical and they locked each the farmers successful their huts. Those successful trollies were forcibly held by the constabulary until they took Dallewal on with them,” Amrik Singh said.

Sarwan Singh Pandher, coordinator, Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM), said, “I person learnt that it was a associated cognition of the Punjab Police, Haryana Police, and cardinal forces… We powerfully condemn this enactment of information forces who are preventing our close to protest”.

“We don’t adjacent cognize wherever our person has been taken. The Punjab authorities should fto america instantly pass astir his whereabouts oregon the consequences wouldn’t beryllium good,” helium added.

Following the incident, BKU Sidhupur and SKM (non-political) person fixed a telephone to the farmers to scope the Khanauri borderline successful ample numbers.

SKM has planned Chetavni rallies successful implicit 500 districts of India on with cardinal commercialized unions connected the day. In addition, SKM non-political and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha person besides announced to march towards Delhi by ft from the Shambhu borderline connected December 6.

When contacted by The Indian Express, Dr Nanak Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Patiala, said they person not detained Dallewal. “We person got him admitted to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) due to the fact that of his property and wellness issues. He is simply a cancer diligent arsenic well”.

A follower of Anna Hazare, Dallewal, 70, is known for his hunger strikes and has sat connected specified protests respective times successful the past.