According to local reports, Jasveer Kaur, a resident of Bakshiwala village of Sangrur, had filed a complaint at Sunam police station a month ago claiming that her husband, Kala Singh, had gone missing.

New Delhi Nov 19 PTI A doctor a retired teacher an ex-army man a former Delhi police constable these are among the people who guided and shaped the nationwide movement against against the three new agri laws which the government agreed to repeal on Friday after more than a year of protestsHere are some of the key farmer leaders who fronted the protests RAKESH TIKAIT national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union Once a Delhi Police constable Tikait has played a key role in negotiations with the government The 52-year-old tried his hand at electoral politics and has been a farmer leader with the BKU for years He broke out of the confines of western Uttar Pradesh to find a space in the national spotlight during the farmers protest The watershed moment came when he broke down while talking to reporters after the Republic Day violence in Delhi striking a deep emotional chord and also pumping new energy into the protests DARSHAN PAL member working group All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee An MBBS doctor by profession 70-year-old Pal has been very active in talks with central and state leaders over the farm laws He played a crucial role in bringing farmer unions together and performed the role of coordinator in the talks He also played a pivotal role in taking the agitation beyond Punjab to farmers in other states of Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan and MaharashtraJOGINDER SINGH UGRAHAN president BKU Ugrahan The ex-Army man viewed as one of the more popular farm leaders belongs to a farming family of Sunam He has been a frontrunner in the movement with his team behind some aggressive aspects of the protests in Punjab including the Rail Roko agitation and the gheraoing of BJP leaders While most farmer unions were protesting at Singhu border his union almost single handedly held fort at the Tikri borderBALBIR SINGH RAJEWAL president BKU His skilful articulation of the farmers viewpoint played a key role during talks with central ministers The 78-year-old was one of the main leaders during the meetings of the 31 unions in planning and implementing their protests He was also the brain behind preparing the protests demand charterHANNAN MOLLAH CPIM politburo member and general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha The 75-year-old has been a constant voice demanding the repeal of the farm laws during the protests He has maintained that the protests will continue till the laws are repealed through a process in Parliament Mollah has also stood for enactment of legal entitlement for the farmers to sell at MSP and believes that the struggle will continue to achieve this goalGURNAM SINGH CHADUNI president BKU Haryana Credited with mobilising farmers before the three farm laws were passed 65-year-old Chaduni led many successful agitations earlier and has adopted unique ways to protest including shirtless marches and throwing potatoes on state highways It was on Chadunis call that protesters tried to make their way to a BJP event in Karnal attended among others by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar The crackdown that followed left several farmers injured and put the Khattar government on the backfootSUKHDEV SINGH KOKRIKALAN general secretary BKU Ugrahan A retired school teacher the now 71-year-old farmer leader Kokrikalan has been at the forefront against confrontation with police during the Delhi Chalo agitationThe government and unions have held 11 rounds of talks the last being on January 22 to break the deadlock and end the farmers protest Talks have not resumed following widespread violence during a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26 From the governments side the negotiations with the farmers were led by three Union ministers UNION AGRICULTURE MINISTER NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR He had been participating in talks with farmers and on several occasions appealed to them to withdraw their protests over the three farm laws saying they are in favour of farmersCOMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION MINISTER PIYUSH GOYAL The Union minister was at the forefront of the talks and has described the laws as pro-farmers on several occasions and sought a resolution through dialogueMINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMERCE SOM PARKASH He participated in talks with the farmers maintaining that the government enacted the laws keeping in view the interest of the whole countrySAD PRESIDENT SUKHBIR SINGH BADAL The logjam over farm laws also turned one of BJPs oldest and closest allies Akali Dal against them Badal announced from the floor of the Parliament that his wife Harsimrat Badal would resign against the farm bills tabled in Parliament by the Centre for passageIn his speech during a discussion on two of the farm bills Badal said the proposed laws will destroy the 50 years of hard work put in by successive Punjab governments and farmers to build the agriculture sectorSoon after Harsimrat Badal who held the post of Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Industries quit in protest PTI 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New Delhi [India], November 12 (ANI): The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming Punjab Assembly election on Friday. In the first list, the AAP has announced the names of 10 candidates.