India, March 28 -- Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who had been on a hunger strike since November 26, 2024, demanding systemic agricultural reforms and legal guarantees for Minimum Support Price (MSP), ended his fast on Friday. During a hearing related to the blockade at Punjab-Haryana border points, the Punjab government informed the Supreme Court that Dallewal, leader of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), had accepted water.

"Mr. Dallewal has finally broken his fast and accepted water," Punjab's advocate general Gurminder Singh informed a bench comprising justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh.

The bench welcomed the development.

"This is good news. We have always maintained that he is a true farmer leader and has the ...