Bathinda, Punjab: After days of hunger strike, farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, recently accepted medical aid. The Punjab government submitted to the Supreme Court that Dallewal has been shifted to a makeshift hospital from the protest site at Khanauri border after meeting with a high-level delegation from the Union government. The Supreme Court on Wednesday took note of the development calling it positive.

The court on Wednesday kept in abeyance the contempt proceedings initiated against Punjab Government officials over not shifting Dallewal to the hospital.

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Dallewal, who started a hunger strike on November 26, had developed health complications, inviting national attention and the apex court had earlier expressed concern over the farmer leader’s health and asked the state government to shift the farmer leader to the hospital.

It is reported that the government informed Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan on Wednesday notified by the Advocate General of Punjab Gurminder Singh along with Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, that Dallewaland and other farmers’ leaders have accepted medical intervention.

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The government’s delegation had met the protesting farmers on January 18. The farmer forum Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is led by Dallewal, had earlier refused to meet the panel constituted by the Supreme Court in September last year.

A staunch proponent of the farmer’s cause, the 70-year-old farmer leader had started an indefinite hunger strike in support of their demands, at the Khanauri protest site in Punjab’s Sangrur district. The demands, among others, include a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops. Despite health deterioration, Dallewal had refused to stop the hunger strike, asserting that he would cease only after the government agrees to the farmers’ demands.