Daijiworld Media Network-Puttur (RJP)

Puttur, May 24: Only politicians are given time in this country for anything, it seems. Farmers’ deaths are very common here. Nobody cares about their plight. A farmer in Kalapparu near Shiradi has ended his life because he was not given sufficient time to repay his loan.

Padmayya Gowda (52) is the person deceased.

Padmayya decided to end his life on May 22 and consumed poison. He was rushed to a Mangaluru hospital immediately. But he did not live till he could be given treatment. Poor farmer breathed his last on the way.

Padmayya is survived by wife, son and daughter. He had one acre of rubber plantation where he cultivated and at times he worked in other farms for his livelihood. As he did not have surplus money, he took a loan in a local cooperative society for his daughter’s marriage.

It was a year since he availed the loan. He could not repay the loan as per the arrangement. He had received notice from the society regarding this. He requested them to give him more time to regularise the loan. But the society people looked at their ‘rulebook’ and said it was impossible as if only poor have rules in this country.

Padmayya did not find any way out from his problem. He decided to end his life.

Uppinangadi police have registered a case.