Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal taken to hospital by police before planned hunger strike
His colleagues at the Khanauri protest site alleged that the police forcibly removed him from the area after breaking into his hut.
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Hours before Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was to begin an indefinite hunger strike at Punjab’s Khanauri border on Tuesday, he was taken to Ludhiana’s Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, said the deputy inspector-general of police of Patiala Range, reported ANI.
Dallewal was scheduled to start a hunger strike to press for farmers’ demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support prices for crops. The minimum support price is the cost at which the government procures agricultural crops from farmers.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Mandeep Singh Sidhu said: “Considering his health and age, he has been taken to DMC Hospital in Ludhiana, and his medical examination is being done.”
“For us, he is a respected person,” Sidhu added. “We are concerned about his health, so we have taken him for medical examination. We have not arrested him.”
Dallewal’s colleagues at the Khanauri protest site, however, alleged that the police forcibly removed Dallewal from the area during the night after breaking into his temporary hut.
“The cops came at 2.30 am, broke the fibreglass wall of the room where Dallewalji was sleeping and took him away,” Amrik Singh of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) told The Indian Express. “They locked other farmers in their huts to prevent them from intervening.”
