In Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, a farmer committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree. According to reports, the farmer could not sell his sugarcane crop in the mill due to the lockdown enforced amid the corona virus epidemic, due to this, the tense farmer committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree near his tubewell. After the death of the farmer, the angry villagers did not allow the dead body to be lifted for hours seeking compensation. At the same time, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has targeted the UP government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on this matter.
According to the police, Ompal Singh, a resident of Sisoli village falling in Bhorakalan police station, went to his farm on Thursday and found his body hanging from a tree in the evening. The farmer's family told the police that he had not been able to sell the sugarcane crop due to the enforced lockdown due to the epidemic, which caused him to go into depression. After the commotion of the villagers, the police, after persuading them, sent the body for postmortem and started investigating the case.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has targeted the UP government regarding this matter. She tweeted, "Seeing his sugarcane crop drying up in the field and not getting the slip, a sugarcane farmer of Muzaffarnagar committed suicide. The BJP claimed that full payment would be given in 14 days, but the sugar mills have been closed, I warned the government about this 2 days ago. Imagine what would have been happening to the farmers families who were not paid during this financial crisis, but the BJP government does not even take the name of sugarcane payment in 14 days."
