Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk met farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike since November 26, at the Khanauri border protest site on Saturday. The 70-year-old's protest is part of a larger demonstration by farmers demanding a legal guarantee for a minimum support price (MSP) for crops.

The Supreme Court criticized farmer leaders for preventing Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s hospitalization amid his fast-unto-death. The court is addressing a contempt petition against Punjab officials for failing to comply with a prior order.

Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal Saturday said that he has been fasting for past over a month of his own free will and that there was a “misconception” that he has been “kept hostage” at the Khanauri protest site,

Punjab government criticized for not providing medical assistance to fasting farmer Dallewal, Supreme Court intervenes.

On Saturday, in an unprecedented hearing, a vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and Sudhanshu Dhulia gave the Punjab government time till December 31 to persuade Dallewal to shift to a hospital, giving it the liberty to seek logistical support from the Centre, if the situation warrants.

The Supreme Court on Saturday came down heavily on the Punjab government for not shifting farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been fasting for over a month, to a hospital even as it doubted the intention of the agitating farmers for resisting availability of medical aid to their septuagenarian leader.