Maharashtra: A Maharashtra-based onion farmer, angry with the Narendra Modi government, sent his paltry income of Rs 1,064 from selling 750 kg onion to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund as a mark of protest.
Sanjay Sathe, the resident of Niphad tehsil in Nashik district, was among the handful of `progressive farmers’ selected by the Union agriculture ministry for an interaction with the US president Barack Obama when he visited India in 2010.
Now, after eight years, he could only manage to sell his produce for a little over Re 1/kg. Angry with the government’s apathy towards farmers, Sathe sent the money to the PM’s relief fund and even took the pains to pay an additional Rs 54 to send the money order.
“It was painful to see such paltry returns on four months of toil. Hence I have donated Rs 1,064 to the Disaster Relief Fund of the PMO as a protest. I had to pay additional Rs 54 for sending it by money order,” he added.
