Farm leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni, others get bail; to be released soon

Haryana, June 15: Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (BKU’s) Gurnam Singh Chaduni and other eight farmer leaders have been granted bail and will be released from prison shortly, sources informed on Thursday

Rakesh Bains, Jasbir Singh Mamumajra, Prince Waraich, Jarnail Singh, Jairam, Gulab Singh, Surjit Singh and Pankaj are among other farmer leaders who will be released from jail.

Around a week earlier, the farm leaders were arrested for blocking National Highway 44 (Delhi-Chandigarh) during a protest in Haryana's Kurukshetra.

The farmers' protest was also put to an end on Tuesday night when the district administration in Kurukshetra, Haryana, gave the farmers assurances that the government had accepted their demands over the minimum support price for sunflowers and the release of the leaders who had been arrested.

After the government agreed to pay Rs 5,000 per quintal for the sunflower crop and an additional Rs 1,400 as "Bhavantar Bharpai" (price difference payment), totalling Rs 6,400 per quintal, the protest was put to an end.

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