Uday Veer Singh, 60, died while protesting before the Baraut tehsil office in Baghpat district a day after chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited Modi's rally venue to review the preparations but ignored the farmers' demand to meet them. "Half-a-dozen farmers have committed suicide in Baghpat since Modi became Prime Minister," said Balroj Singh, a protesting farmer. "We can't let the death of one of us go in vain," Balroj said. Arvind Dwivedi, subdivisional magistrate of Baraut, claimed Uday Veer "had come from somewhere on some business and was not part of the dharna". But Jile Singh said Uday Veer had been part of the dharna since it began and accused the administration of "playing ugly politics against us".

Source: The Telegraph May 26, 2018 21:11 UTC