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Farmer’s suicide bid creates flutter in Hyderabad
Farmer’s suicide bid creates flutter in Hyderabad. In a bizarre incident, a debt-ridden farmer climbed a cell phone tower right in front of the Telangana Assembly building here, threatening to jump down even as the legislature was busy discussing the issue of growing number of farmers’ suicides in State in the recent past.
DRIVEN TO THE WALL
Police jittery as Sammayya from Warangal climbs atop a mobile tower near Assembly and threatens to jump down to death
- Three more farmers end lives in Ranga Reddy district on Tuesday
- Opposition claims 1,400 farmers committed suicides in newly-carved State
Hyderabad: In a bizarre incident, a debt-ridden farmer climbed a cell phone tower right in front of the Telangana Assembly building here, threatening to jump down even as the legislature was busy discussing the issue of growing number of farmers’ suicides in State in the recent past. The 30-year-old farmer from Warangal district climbed the cell phone tower across the road from the Assembly building in the heart of city, causing a flutter in the high security zone.
Senior police officials rushed to the spot and tried to persuade him to get down. The farmer who was identified as Sammayya belongs to Nekkonda in Warangal district attempted to take the extreme step after he was denied permission by the security personnel to enter the Assembly premises and meet Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
The incident took place around 2 pm, a few minutes before the Assembly adjourned for the day. Sammayya entered the premises of Prasar Bharati from the rear entrance and climbed the telephone tower on the premises. He then opened a pesticide bottle and consumed a small quantity from the bottle.
On noticing Sammayya, the police personnel, who were on Assembly bandobust duties, rushed to bring him down. After getting assurance from the police, Sammayya agreed to get down from the tower. “If my demands are not fulfilled, even after one year, I will commit suicide and next time I will jump from the Assembly building,” Sammayya threatened before getting down.
The police officers rushed the farmer to a nearby hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, suicides continued unabated in the newly-carved State with three more farmers ending their lives on Tuesday in Ranga Reddy district, near here. They included a couple. All the three consumed pesticides in their fields due to mounting debts and crop failure because of poor rainfall this monsoon.
The State government has put at 430 the number of famers who committed suicides since June 2014, when the new State came into existence. The Opposition parties, however, claim that 1,400 famers ended their lives during the period. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 898 farmers committed suicides in Telangana during 2014. It was the second highest number in the country after Maharashtra, which reported 2,568 farmer suicide deaths.
