Guntur: A young tenant farmer and reportedly a staunch loyalist of Telugu Desam, on Saturday, threatened to commit suicide at the collectorate in Guntur on January 22, unable to bear the negligence of the revenue officials in surveying his farmland.
On Jan. 18 night, tenant farmer K. Brahmaiah committed suicide at the collectorate in Guntur unable to bear crop losses and debts by consuming poison.
Ch. Raja posted a selfie video in the social media about harassment of revenue officials in surveyinghis farmland. He said he did not get agriculture loan waiver and so borrowed '8 lakh from private moneylenders, which along with the interest has increased to Rs 12 lakh. He said he could not clear the loan due to crop losses and so decided to sell his one acre land but that revenue officials were creating hurdles in conducting the survey. He warned that he would commit suicide at the collectorate on January 22.
He claimed that he got one acre of land from his mother Vijayalakshmi and began to cultivate various crops in the same. He said due to poor income, he had taken another 22 acres on lease but that chilli, cotton and other crops cultivated in those fields got damaged pushing him into debts.
He said he submitted applications in the grievance cells seeking compensation to crop damages but in vain. The revenue officials rushed to the village but he was unavailable at his house. They asked him to meet them but he refused fearing being arrested.
