Mandya: Hours after Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy announced a farm loan waiver of Rs. 34,000 crore that will waive off loans up to Rs. 2 lakh, one farmer from Mandya committed suicide by hanging late last evening.
The farmer has been identified as 60-year-old K.C. Bhadraiah of Kacchigere near Mandya. Ironically, Bhadraiah was a great fan of Kumaraswamy and had hoped that the CM will waive off all farm loans. Bhadraiah had borrowed Rs. 5 lakh loan and had grown sugarcane in a 2-acre land. Due to successive drought, he could not make any profits.
