Rajnath calls for opposition's cooperation to solve farmers' plight

"Gajendra Singh's suicide is very sad and unfortunate.I on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the entire nation and government, feel that it was a very sad incident.This issue should not be politicised," he told the Lok Sabha during the zero hour.

Replying the allegations of the opposition that the Modi government was apathetic to farmers' distress, Singh said, "no government can claim that they are anti-farmer. All governments are pro-farmer.The government and the opposition should work together and come to a solution. Mulayam Singh is right. If farmers are not wealthy the nation won't be wealthy."

Singh's speech was often disrupted by a vociferous opposition as he stopped few times and tried to pacify the agitated members who raised an uproar protesting the government's policy.

Denying the allegation that police remained inactive when Gajendra Singh tied the noose around his neck and hanged himself from a tree at the venue of a rally of the Aam Aadmi Party, Singh said it was the police who immediately called fire brigade to bring down the farmer from tree.

"I have instructed police to conduct a fair and speedy probe into the incident," he said.

Singh said the Modi government was "productively and positively" working towards farmers' loans which no other government thought of before.