At funeral: Netas, slogans & tears

NAGLA JHAMARWADA (DAUSA): If Gajendra Singh committed suicide or if his death was accidental an investigation will tell, but in death he was quite a hero in his village. On Thursday a large crowd of mourners milled outside the family home, TV cameramen darted up and down the pathway leading to the all-white structure as senior politicians came to express their condolence.

Gajendra's children -daughter and two sons -were distraught. The wailing daughter fumed at reporters and asked them repeatedly to leave. The boys stood in stony silence, clueless about all that was going on around them.

Among the senior politi cians present were former CM Ashok Gehlot and PCC chief Sachin Pilot. Both met Gajendra's devastated father, Bane Singh, and consoled him Later Pilot told reporters: "It's unfortunate that such an incident has taken place, that too in the national capital. It was really sad that someone was forced to take his life." Gehlot said suicides were unheard of in Rajasthan and blamed the ruling BJP government's "in sensitivity" for the deaths.

"We've been cautioning the state government about the farmers' conditions; they were devastated as all their crops were destroyed. The government ought to have released a special package outside the norms (of crop compensation)," Gehlot said.

At the village, Gajendra's father, Bane Singh, relatives said, was a broken man. "He fainted a few of times and has been crying ever since he got the news," a relative said.

As Gajendra's remains were taken for cremation, hundreds of villagers went along and raised slogans against the Vasundhara Raje government and AAP as the funeral pyre was lit.

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