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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmer death before Modi's visit to UP -Piyush Srivastava

Farmer death before Modi's visit to UP -Piyush Srivastava

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published Published on May 27, 2018   modified Modified on May 27, 2018
-The Telegraph

Lucknow: A farmer said to be demonstrating against the Uttar Pradesh government with 50 others since May 21 died of a heatstroke on Saturday, the fourth anniversary of Narendra Modi's government and a day before the Prime Minister addresses a rally 20km from the spot.

Uday Veer Singh, 60, died while protesting before the Baraut tehsil office in Baghpat district a day after chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited Modi's rally venue to review the preparations but ignored the farmers' demand to meet them.

Agitated at Uday Veer's death, over 10,000 farmers joined the dharna at the site within hours, declaring they would stay put till the state government met their demands to cut the power tariff for tube-wells and get sugar mills to pay their dues.

Farmers' unpaid sugarcane dues, allegedly running into Rs 1,000 crore, is the principal issue for Monday's by-election to the Kairana Lok Sabha seat, 60km from the stadium in Mawikalan village where Modi is to hold his rally.

Officially, the Prime Minister is to inaugurate the much-awaited Eastern Peripheral Expressway but BJP sources had conceded that the rally would virtually serve as a campaign meeting a day before the vote.

A BJP politician in Lucknow said that Modi had been expected to focus his speech on farmers with an eye on the by-election but, after Uday Veer's death, "he has to speak about development in general".

In Baraut, the farmers dismissed the local administration's claim that Uday Veer had not been part of the protest and decided to highlight the farmer suicides that had occurred in the district during the Modi government's tenure.

"Half-a-dozen farmers have committed suicide in Baghpat since Modi became Prime Minister," said Balroj Singh, a protesting farmer.

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The Telegraph, 27 May, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/farmer-death-before-modi-s-visit-to-up-233399?ref=hm-ft-stry-1


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