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AAP reaches out to farmer's family
Dausa (Rajasthan), April 24
Delhi's ruling AAP
on Friday reached out to the family of a farmer here who committed
suicide at a party rally in the national capital.
Aam Aadmi Party
leader Sanjay Singh, a confidant of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal, visited Gajendra Singh's distraught family a day after he was
cremated.
Emerging after meeting the family members, Sanjay Singh
told the media that they had demanded "martyr's status" for Gajendra
Singh and employment to a member of his family from the Delhi
government.
"I will convey these to Kejriwal. The matter will be
considered most sympathetically by the Delhi government," Sanjay Singh
said. He declined to answer further questions.
It was the first
meeting between AAP leaders and the victim's family who had the
preceding two days bitterly attacked the party for not doing enough to
save Gajendra Singh.
Gajendra Singh hanged himself from a tree on
Wednesday at a rally in the heart of the capital called by the AAP to
denounce the land ordinance.
Delhi Police had accused AAP
activists of instigating the farmer to commit suicide and of preventing
the police from coming to his help.
The AAP denied the charges,
and instead accused Delhi Police of not acting quickly to save the man
who was rushed to a hospital by AAP activists.
Also on Friday,
Kejriwal apologized for not halting his speech after coming to know of
the incident but maintained that the man was alive when he was brought
down by the tree. He was declared dead in hospital.