The deceased includes pilgrims who were travelling from Kurukshetra to Guga Medi when the accident occurred. There were 16 pilgrims in a Tata Magic vehicle.
Farmers protest: Haryana Police has already deployed 50 companies of central paramilitary forces to maintain law and order in the state. Meanwhile, farmers are preparing themselves for marching towards Delhi even as they slammed the Haryana government for sealing the borders with Punjab.
The woman's mother-in-law said she was taken to a health centre in Pegga village on Monday night as she was in labour.
INLD leader Abhay Chautala, along with his father and former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala, is organising the ‘Kisan Panchayat’ where leaders like Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, former PM HD Deve Gowda and Siromani Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal are expected to be present.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has also supported the Jind farmers' decision of carrying a tractor rally on August 15 and called them 'revolutionary'.
Suresh Kumar was out on a morning walk in Alipura village of Uchana sub-division when some youths shot at him from close range leaving him dead, Uchana police station Sub-Inspector Ravinder Singh said over the phone.
The stage on which Bharatiya Kisan Union (Arajnaitik) leader Rakesh Tikait and other farmer leaders were standing collapsed in Haryana's Jind on February 03. A Kisan 'Mahapanchayat' was underway when the incident took place.
The Kisan Mahapanchayat amid the presence of thousands of farmers in Jind district of Haryana on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution to revoke the three contentious farm laws where BKU leader Rakesh Tikait announced that "if their demands were not accepted, they will hold another 'mahapanchayat' of India level".
Police allegedly misbehaved with a family, who blocked a road in Haryana's Jind over alleged inaction in a theft case.
The driver of the auto-rickshaw was also killed in the accident, while another man who was part of the group that took part in the recruitment drive was critically injured, they said.
The Congress, which had fielded its senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, sitting MLA from Kaithal, ended up at the third spot.
On January 28, voting took place. Nearly 76 per cent of the 1.72 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the multi-cornered contest.
The bypoll was necessitated following the death of INLD MLA Hari Chan Middha, whose son Krishna Middha recently joined the BJP and is the saffron party's candidate for the by-election.
The multi-cornered by-election was necessitated after the death of INLD legislator Hari Chand Middha in August 2018.
The high-stake election is considered a referendum on the Manohar Lal Khattar government and also a semi-final ahead of Lok Sabha elections.
The bypoll has brought rare unity among Congress rank as party's top leaders are actively campaigning for Randeep Surjewala.
Surjewala had earlier won polls from Jind district.
Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'Yuva Hunkar Rally' at Pandu Pindara village in Jind district, Shah said the BJP's governance model was to ensure equal development for all.
Police and security forces have been put on alert to prevent any untoward incident taking place during the rally.
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