Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has ended hunger strike, Punjab tells Supreme Court

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who was on a hunger strike since November 26, accepted water and broke his fast on Friday morning, the Punjab government told the Supreme Court, according to Live Law.

Dallewal, chief of the farm group Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), was on a hunger strike at Khanauri, located on the Punjab-Haryana border. His strike was part of a wider campaign by Punjab’s farm groups to press the Union government to accept their demand for legally guaranteed minimum support prices. The minimum support price is the cost at which the government procures crops from farmers.

“Mr Dallewal accepted water today and broke fast,” Advocate General Gurminder Singh, representing the Punjab government, told a bench of Justices Surya Kant and NK Singh on Friday.

He added that the state government had dispersed the farmers protesting at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders and opened the National Highway for traffic.

Farmers have been protesting at Shambhu and Khannauri on the Punjab-Haryana border since February 2024, demanding a legal guarantee for minimum support price.

“We know some people did not want settlement of grievances of farmers,” PTI quoted the bench as saying on Friday. “We are not sitting in an ivory tower. We know everything.”

The court also asked the Punjab and Haryana governments to file a status report on...

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