BATHINDA: Another farmer died during the protests in Punjab against farm laws. The farmer died minutes after winding up the protest for the day outside BJP leader Archana Dutt at Barnala town.
Zora Singh, 72, of village Sekha boarded the tractor trolley to reach his village after winding up of the protest at about 4pm. He is learnt to have died of cardiac arrest. The mortal remains have been put at Barnala civil hospital. Earlier 12 farmers have died in nearly two months during the farmer protests.
“The tractor trolley carrying some farmers including Zora Singh had just left the dharna outside BJP leader. The co-passengers saw him motionless and checked his pulse which had stopped. They immediately returned to protest site where information was given to the policemen posted outside the residence of the BJP leader," said farm organisation BKU Ekta Ugrahan activist Balour Singh Chhana.
He said Zora Singh was regular at the protest and sometimes even his wife Parvinder Kaur too to come. We want compensation of Rs 10 lakh and a job to one of the family members and till the demands are not met we will not allow the post-mortem to be conducted.