The incident at the AAP rally in Delhi, where a farmer, Gajendra Singh, committed suicide, is cause for distress (“ >Horror of farm suicide visits Delhi ,” April 23). What is worse is that political parties have lost no time to ignite the issue. The farmer’s purported suicide note does not appear to mention the land acquisition ordinance, which in turn raises many questions. Though a resident in faraway Rajasthan, how did he decide to go to Delhi on the day of the rally? This aspect needs to be investigated. Farmers have to live with natural calamities. If our quibbling politicians are genuinely interested in farmer welfare, they must debate the issue in Parliament and work out an all-India strategy that provides farmers an additional avocation.
K.R. Unnithan,
Chennai
It is terrible that a person was able to end his life in front of a large gathering and that no one could do anything about it. Rather than it being described as a ‘shame on AAP and the Delhi Police’, I think it’s a shame on humanity. It does not matter whether he was a farmer or a labourer. He was a human and should have lived.
Girijesh Pandey,
New Delhi
The ‘idealism’ of the Aam Aadmi Party stands demolished. How could these so-called sympathisers of farmers continue with the rally even though a horrendous incident took place? They cannot feign innocence.
Sweety Gupta,
New Delhi
The incident is a pointer to the deep crisis that has engulfed the agrarian sector and that political parties are now trying to make political capital out of it. There must be relief for farmers in general immediately. Forget the tweets. Does anyone care about the poor Indian farmer?
Varshdeep Singh Chahal,
Patiala, Punjab
