Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, expressing grief over the death of five farmers, said that the State Government will provide assistance to the families of deceased farmers as well as take care of treatment of all the injured. “Saddened to learn of demise of our five farmers. Labh Singh Ji and Gurpreet Singh of Patiala met with an accident in Karnal, Sukhdev Singh and Deep Singh of Fatehgarh Sahib near Mohali, and Makkhan Khan of Moga who died of a heart attack in Delhi (sic),” he said in a tweet.
In a related tweet, Capt Amarinder said: “Punjab Government will provide all due assistance to the families of deceased farmers as well as take care of treatment of all the injured (sic)”. Meanwhile, the farmers’ organizations on Tuesday announced that tributes would be paid on December 20 to the farmers who lost their lives during the farmers’ agitation. “On December 20, from 11 am to 1 pm, in all the villages of the country, tributes would be paid to the farmers who were martyred during the agitation,” said a farmers’ leader addressing the media at New Delhi.