New Delhi:

A political rally at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar turned horrific on Wednesday afternoon after a farmer from Rajasthan, staging protest against Modi government’s ‘controversial’ Land Bill, dramatically committed suicide by hanging from a tree.

An unknown face, Gajendra Singh Kalyanwat became famous overnight, only to remain in memories forever.

Holding a broom in hand, the demised grower, who hailed from Dausa in Rajasthan, symbolised the sufferings of farmers pushed to the edge by massive crop loss because of unseasonal rain.

The man who was expected at a niece’s wedding on Wednesday evening traumatised the complete village and left a void with his questionable death.



Gajendra was a well accomplished turban tier whose skills have been witnessed by US former President Bill Clinton, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and HM Rajnath Singh.



Not many know that he also contested and won only around 3,000 votes as a Samajwadi Party candidate in the 2003 state polls. Politically active and regular at rallies, the farmer blended in with his Khaki kurta, white shawl, dhoti and a turban.

His death brought a new political war to the galleries of Parliament raising a plausible question- Who actually killed Gajendra?



Was it the crop loss, or was he pressurised in any manner or was he actually killed; all the questions have gone in vain with him, but the political war lords have taken it up as another opportunity to gain mileage from a farmer’s death.



The blame game has begun with AAP, Congress and BJP shifting the ball into each other’s courts. No one is ready to understand the plight of farmers, instead are trying to raise a political diabolical over the man who has already left us.



Slogans raised, effigies burnt, heated debates in Parliament and high-level meetings over the issue have taken place but in vain.

Several theories have also come to the surface regarding the death after Gajendra’s sister questioned the handwritten suicide note.



While speaking to News Nation, she revealed, “”This is not my brother’s handwriting.”



Then was the suicide note written by somebody else, was he framed for some ulterior motive- only Gajendra knows!



His cousin also revealed that the brother visited Delhi deputy-CM Manish Sisodia at his residence before the Kisan rally at Jantar Mantar.



The whole issue looks curious especially with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to Delhi Police of not allowing media to the rally.

The whole issue looks curious especially with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to Delhi Police of not allowing media to the rally.



The suicide note also points to certain dilemma with Gajendra first writing his name as Upendra and later striking it down to Gajendra.



All said and done one thing is certain- Nobody cared, nobody bothered, the show went on and a life came to a miserable end.



We are sure that his death mystery will be debated, covered LIVE on TV channels, invite voyeurism and make hashtag rounds only to put into cold storage like several others.



But if this cannot raise our morality, then it is certainly a national shame.



Just like Peepli Live's Naththa, Gajendra Singh also lost his life for nothing.