A 40-year-old farmer, resident of Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab, Amarinder Singh, today reportedly committed suicide after consuming poison at the Singhu border, the site of the ongoing farmers' agitation.
He was rushed to a hospital in Haryana's Sonepat around 7:30 pm, where the doctors declared him brought dead.
As per reports, the Haryana Police was immediately intimated about the incident and they started an investigation into the matter.
Meanwhile, scores of farmers from different states of the country have been protesting at Delhi's borders for more than 35 days now demanding the repeal of the three farm laws, recently introduced by the government. As many as eight rounds of talks between farmers' unions and the central government have failed to end the deadlock.
Besides, over 50 deaths have been reported from the protest site in the last two months.