MP Farmer Dies In Queue For Selling Wheat Produce

Prem Singh, a farmer, has died of a cardiac arrest while waiting in a queue to sell his wheat produce in Madhya Pradesh’s Agar-Malwa district.

Forty-five-year-old Prem Singh had arrived at the Wheat Procurement Centre at Tanodia on the evening of May 17 along with his younger brother Jitendra.

Singh had been waiting for his turn to sell his wheat crop for the last nine days. But on Monday evening, while still waiting to reach the weighing scale, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.

After the death of this farmer, Collector Sanjay Kumar, along with his subordinate officers, reached the hospital, where there was a lot of furore.

Following Prem Singh’s death, the Congress has targeted the state’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan government. The Congress has alleged that long queues of farmers have been forming at Wheat Procurement Centres for the last one month.

The Congress has also termed Prem Singh’s death a ‘murder’.

.@ChouhanShivraj सरकार की गैरइंतजामी के चलते किसान बर्बादी की कगार पर खड़ा है। प्रदेश के हर खरीदी केंद्र पर बदहाली का आलम है और किसान की दुर्दशा सुनने वाला कोई नहीं। आगर मालवा के किसान प्रेमसिंह की मृत्यु सरकारी तंत्र द्वारा की गई हत्या है। 1/3 pic.twitter.com/4V8zYZXwlr

— Kunal Choudhary (@KunalChoudhary_) May 26, 2020

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has claimed that wheat is being purchased from all farmers but the ground reality is that farmers have been waiting for several weeks to get their produce weighed. 

At several Wheat Procurement Centres in the state, over 500 tractors have been seen standing in queues as long as 1-1.5 kms for around a week.   

Meanwhile, CM Chouhan claimed that despite the coronavirus pandemic, he has purchased more than 105 lakh metric tonne wheat at over 10% the market rate in the past month.

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