Ballari: A video has gone viral on the internet in which electronic media crew and a few farmers’ leaders are asking a farmer to ‘act’ as if he is consuming poison at Kurglagundi village in Ballari taluk.
The incident at Kurglagundi village on Wednesday played out like a movie shooting. The farmer, 60-year-old Kurubara Kumarappa was for ‘retakes’ too! With the first take not coming well, the farmer was made to enact the scene again. Then, the local farmers’ leaders jumped in to prevent him from consuming the pesticide. The ‘scene’ was taken successfully after three ‘takes’.
It is said that Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene district president Darur Purushottham Goud got the electronic media crew to the spot after he got the information that a farmer in Korlagundi village was destroying his chilli crop on about six acres of land, which was withering for want of water.
The incident has attracted sharp criticism in the State which has witnessed several cases of farmers’ suicides in the last two years. Superintendent of Police Chethan R, he said he would look into the matter if anyone files a complaint in this regard.
