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Police has received a purported suicide note after the deaths of a businessman and his wife who hanged themselves in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district. According to PTI the note that surfaced on social media, businessman Manoj Parmar urged Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders not to leave his children alone and accused the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and BJP leaders of harassment. A row erupted in Madhya Pradesh between state Congress and BJP after a businessman and his wife were found hanging in Sehore district on Friday.
The Congress claimed that the victims, Manoj Parmar and his wife, were party supporters and that the Enforcement Direct and orate (ED) harassed them over their political affiliations. The Congress the couple’s their children had gifted their piggybank to Gandhi during his "Bharat Jodo (Nyaya) Yatra". The party also claimed the couple was being harassed by ED over their political leanings.
PTI quoted Sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Akash Amalkar saying “ suicide note received by the police was in the form of an application”. He said the family members of the deceased couple were still in mourning, so the police have not recorded their statements. Talking to PTI, Amalkar said he cannot reveal more about the suicide note as the investigation is underway.
Parmar and his wife Neha were found hanging in their home in Ashta town of Sehore district on Friday morning. The suicide note is addressed to the President of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi and others. The suicide note has further intensified the war of words between Congress and BJP.
In a post on X on Saturday, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath wrote "The deceased's only crime was that during our leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, his children had supported the yatra by gifting him a piggy bank," he wrote and shared a news report about this case and suicide note. Nath said the deceased's suicide note mentions harassment by the ED and pressure to join the BJP. He said the whole case was more about wiping out an entire family than harassing a businessman to the point of suicide for political reasons.
He also urged Chief Minister Mohan Yadav to get the case investigated as per law and ensure strict action against the culprits. Madhya Pradesh BJP's media in-charge Ashish Agrawal had on Friday had accused congress of doing politics over the deaths . "Doing politics over death is the old vulture-like character of (With inputs from PTI).
