Wearing BJP T-shirt, Maharashtra farmer hangs himself

Buldhana: In a huge embarrassment for Maharashtra’s ruling BJP, a distressed farmer sporting a a party poll campaign T-shirt hanged himself on a tree in the state’s Buldhana district early on Sunday.
The body of the farmer, identified as 38-year old Raju Talware, was found hanging from a tree branch at his Khatkhed village in the district, around 8.30 a.m.
He was sporting a Bharatiya Janata Party colourful T-shirt with a symbol of the ‘Lotus’ and the campaign slogan “Punha Aanuya Aaple Sarkar” (Let’s Re-elect Our Government) distributed by the party to activists ahead of the October 21 assembly elections.
The development came on a critical day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a poll rally in the Vidarbha, BJP President Amit Shah was on a poll tour of Western Maharashtra, and the Opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Marathwada and Mumbai.
Incidentally, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis hails from Nagpur in the Vidarbha region.
Shiv Sena farmers’ leader Kishore Tiwari warned that the development was “extremely grave” and urged all parties to take serious note of the stress plaguing the state’s farmlands.