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Chandigarh: Surinderpal Singh, a 60-year-old farmer, died Saturday during a protest by members of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Preneet Kaur in Patiala...
The incident took place Saturday afternoon in Sehra village in Ghanaur when Preneet Kaur a four-time Patiala MP was visiting villages and her cavalcade was surrounded by protesting farmers showing black flags...
Multiple videos of the incident show that her vehicles were surrounded by agitated farmers..
However, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, president of the BKU (Sidhupur), has alleged that the farmers death took place after BJP supporters pushed the protesters around roughly...
State Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who is also the partys candidate from Ludhiana, wrote on X that both the AAP and the BJP were responsible for the farmers death...
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