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Debt ridden farmer attempts suicide at Chavan's rally,
critical
Sunday December 04, 2011 06:30:48 PM,
IANS
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Amravati (Maharashtra): In a major embarrassment for Maharashtra's ruling Democratic Front
government, a debt-ridden farmer attempted suicide by consuming
poison during an election rally of Chief Minister Prithviraj
Chavan in Dhamangaon village, near here, Sunday.
Arun Sabane (30), was shouting slogans demanding better prices for
cotton and soyabean farmers along with other farmers, when
suddenly, he whipped out a bottle of poison and consumed it in
full public view, said NGO Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti chief
Kishor Tiwari.
Police immediately rushed him to the nearby Dhamangaon civil
hospital but when his condition failed to improve, he was shifted
to the government hospital at the district headquarters.
Terming his condition as "critical," Tiwari said that besides
Sabane's suicide attempt, 10 other debt-ridden farmers have
already ended their lives in just the first four days of December.
Incidentally, this was the same venue visited by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh June 30, 2006 to provide "a healing touch" to the
farmers of Vidarbha, when Chavan had accompanied him as the then
minister of state in the prime minister's office.
A visibly disturbed Chavan is later believed to have instructed
the district administration to make all efforts to save Sabane's
life.
Incidentally, last week the VJAS wrote to the State Election Chief
Neela Satyanarayan, requesting her to relax the ongoing election
code of conduct enforced for the ensuing civic body polls, to
enable the state government announce a relief package for the
debt-ridden farming community of the state.
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