Sathe had earlier sent Rs 1,064, his earnings from onion sale in the wholesale market, to PM Modi on November 29 as a protest
BS:The farmer from Nashik, who had sent his onion sale earnings to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to highlight low returns, has alleged that the district authorities wrongly described his produce as of “low quality”. Sanjay Sathe, from Niphad tehsil in Nashik district of Maharashtra, on Monday wrote a letter to the PMO in which he said the authorities prepared a report about his onion produce without any inquiry and that it was “false”.
Sathe had earlier sent Rs 1,064, his earnings from onion sale in the wholesale market, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 29 as a protest. However, a report later submitted to the Maharashtra government by the district deputy registrar office said the farmer’s onions were of “medium to low quality” and “blackish” in colour.
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Refuting the claim, Sathe, in his letter to the PMO, said, “I sold 750 kg onion and earned Rs 1,064. But without any inquiry, the state government officials in their report stated that my onions were blackish and of low quality. It is false and officials are misguiding you.”
“I hope you will understand that if authorities can lie to you, what challenges a common man would be facing in government offices,” he said in the letter sent from the local office of India Post. Almost every onion grower was facing the same situation of low rates and the state’s “apathy” towards it, Sathe claimed, and requested the prime minister to find a solution to it.
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