40-year-old protesting farmer dies by committing suicide at Delhi border

The farmer, identified as Amarinder Singh, told friends he was forced to take this step because the government had refused to listen to their demands to repeal the three contentious farm laws and the legal guarantees be offered for MSP (minimum support price).

The farmer said that he hoped his death would bring success to the farmers' movement.

Singh had earlier been rushed to Sonipat's FIMS Hospital but he died during treatment.

His body was then sent to the mortuary at the Government Hospital, where a post-mortem was scheduled for Sunday morning.

The body will then likely be handed over to other farmers at the protest site as police have, so far, been unable to trace Amarinder Singh's family.

This is the second farmer death to have been reported this month; last week a 75-year-old farmer was found dead at a protest site near the Delhi-Ghaziabad border.

Thousands of farmers are camped in Delhi-Haryana border since the end of November with the sole demand of the repeal of the laws enacted by the central government through an Ordinance amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

So far all the talks between the Centre and the farmers' representatives proved futile and failed to achieve any breakthrough.