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Authorities attempting to cover up with probe, says Nashik farmer, who sent money to Modi: report

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By CNBC-TV18 December 6, 2018, 9:52:30 AM IST (Updated)

Authorities attempting to cover up with probe, says Nashik farmer, who sent money to Modi: report
Nashik-based farmer, who sent a money order of Rs 1,064 to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get his attention to the state of onion farmers, said the district administration interrogated his ‘political affiliation’ as an "attempt to cover up", The Hindu BusinessLine

reported.

“I have nothing to do with politics. But it seems that the administration and the government want to give it a political colour and cover up my concerns under the wrap of politics,” Sanjay Sathe told BusinessLine.

Sathe got a mere Rs 1,064 after selling his harvest of onions weighing 750 kg with the price of just Rs 1.41 a kg in the wholesale market. For the cultivation, the farmer invested Rs 75,000, said the BL report.

Nashik's Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) is the largest wholesale market for onions in the continent.

Also read: Why onion prices face wild fluctuations every year, explained

“I thought that they would start a probe why farmers are in distress and onion prices are crashing, but they are investigating my political affiliation. My friends and relatives are being questioned. I am just a farmer and I don’t have any connection with any political party,” Sathe told the paper.

The district administration, however, denied the allegation. “No such thing has happened. It is baseless. It is not about checking political affiliation. We wanted to know if it is a fake news. Other things are also there. We just wanted to know whether the farmer exists. That’s it. We never asked for his political affiliation; we never do these things," Nashik District Collector Radhakrishnan B was quoted by the paper.
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