KISAN UNION PUNJAB CHIEF DIES OF CARDIAC ARREST IN AMRITSAR
AMRITSAR: Kirti Kisan Union’s Punjab president Datar Singh died after he suffered a cardiac arres while addressing a function at the Virsa Vihar in Amritsar on Sunday.
Datar Singh, 72, also a member of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a united front of over 40 farmers unions formed in November 2020 to coordinate the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws, was taken to a private hospital in Amritsar, but was died on the way.
Datar Singh of Gharindi village falling under the Ajnala sub-division of Amritsar also served as the founding president of Democratic Teachers Front (DTF), Punjab. Datar had been pretty active in mobilising support for the farmers protesting against the three farm laws at the Delhi borders.
An eloquent speaker, Datar had recently returned from the Delhi border to take part in the function organised in the memory of comrade Ujagar Singh Khatrai Kalan at the Virsa Vihar.
“At around 2:40 pm, he addressed the function. As soon as he completed his address, he sat on a chair and suffered a cardiac arrest. We rushed him to the Fortis Hospital, but he died on the way,” said Dilbagh Singh Kharai of the Comrade Ujagar Singh Yadgari Memorial Foundation.
DATAR SINGH, 72, WAS ALSO MEMBER OF SAMYUKT KISAN MORCHA (SKM), A UNITED FRONT OF 40 FARMERS UNIONS FORMED IN NOVEMBER 2020 TO COORDINATE FARMERS’ STIR
ROHTAK: An inmate, who was serving life sentence in a murder case, was killed and two security personnel were injured after 14 other inmates attacked them at Sonepat jail on Sunda.
Deceased Jagbir Singh, of Kasandi village, was brought to jail on Saturday after cops completed four-day remand after arresting him with a weapon on February 16. Jail DSP Ankit Malik said a sguard Naveen had opened barrack number 8 to give breakfast to inmates.
“They attacked the security guard and freed themselves from the barracks. Then, 14 inmates entered ward number 20, where they attacked Jasbir. They strangulated him to death with a cloth,” Malik told police. The victim’s brother Krishan Kumar alleged the inmates associated with Krishan Gantha gang had killed his brother with the help of jail staff.
JAMMU: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday advocated dialogue with Pakistan to end terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, saying friendship holds the key to development in the region.
“Terrorism is still prevalent (in Jammu and Kashmir) contrary to their (BJPS) claim that we have finished it. If we want to finish it, we have to talk with our neighbour,” Abdullah said. Talking to reporters during a visit to a market here, the former chief minister of the erstwhile state remembered former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee’s words “you can change your friends but not your neighbours” and said “either we grow friendship and prosper or continue the enmity, then there will be no prosperity”.
He was responding to a question about the terrorist attack on police in Bhagat locality of Srinagar on February 19, which left two policemen dead. “This is the reality of the day. I appeal to the government to adopt the same approach as they had with China over the standoff in Ladakh and started withdrawal of its troops. The same is needed here to pull out J&K from this (terrorism),” he said.
Asked whether he is hopeful of success of the ongoing Indochina talks, the NC leader said ,“Both the countries need to sit and define this line (Line of Actual Control) so that the issue is settled forever. Both the countries are powerful and the key to development lies in friendship.”