Crop loans drive farmer to end life in Telangana

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaves no opportunity to make tall claims of its measures for farmers welfare, while its leaders keep boasting that not a single farmer committed suicide in Telangana ever since K. Chandrasekhar Rao became chief minister.

On Sunday, BRS chief spoke about ‘farmers rule’ at a public meeting in Nanded of Maharashtra and alleged that farmers in Maharashtra commit suicides in increasing numbers, while a farmer committed suicide in Telangana allegedly due to the debts incurred for farming.

According to reports, 32-year-old farmer Lingam of Lingotam village in Achampet mandal of Nagarkurnool district had borrowed Rs. 2 lakh for cultivating groundnut crop on his two acre land. However, the yield was not as expected. Added to this, he had incurred losses in the previous cropping season as the cotton crop he cultivated was completely damaged due to untimely rains.

The reports suggested that Lingam was worried because he had no other source to repay the private loans he had borrowed for cultivation and felt insulted. Unable to take on the humiliation, the farmer is learnt to have swallowed pesticide near Nadimpally lake to end his life. Family members of Lingam came to know about him lying dead after someone notified them. Sub-Inspector, Govardhan said a case has been registered on the information given by the victim’s family.