New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- A day after a 57-year-old farmer from Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat died at the protest site in UP-Ghaziabad border, another farmer on Saturday allegedly died by suicide at the protest side, police said. The deceased was identified as Kashmir Singh Ladi, who hailed from the Bilaspur area of UP's Rampur district.

72-year-old Ladi was founded hanging at one of the mobile toilets at the protest sites. Shamsher Rana, media coordination of Bharatiya Kisan, claimed that Ladi has left behind a note written in Punjabi that blamed the government for not accepting the demands of farmers.

"The letter is currently in possession of the police, who refused to disclose more details," he told Hindustan Times.

"The farmers' committee has...