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The authorities successful Madhya Pradesh’s Guna territory suspended an authoritative aft the video of a husbandman crying to merchantability his harvest successful a authorities mandi (marketplace) went viral, officials said connected Thursday (March 13, 2026). They added that a squad has besides been recovered to find the farmer.
The incidental took spot connected Wednesday (March 12, 2026) astatine the Nanakhedi Krishi Upaj Mandi successful Guna erstwhile the purchasing was suspended allegedly owed to a marketplace inspector’s misbehaviour with the farmers and traders.
As the farmers remained gathered astatine the site, 1 of them broke down portion pleading for the operations to beryllium resumed. The husbandman has been identified by officials arsenic Kamal Pal, a nonmigratory of Shrichakpur village.
“Please bargain my crop... my sister’s tika (a wedding ritual) is tomorrow,” helium was heard saying successful the video that went viral connected societal media.
Mr. Pal says that helium had been astatine the mandi since Tuesday (March 10, 2026) waiting to merchantability his coriander harvest but the traders person unopen the purchasing operations.
“There are lone 60 tractors [of farmers] left, it would person lone taken fractional an hour. Two of my trollies are waiting,” helium adds.
As per section officials and reports, the traders suspended operations pursuing arguments with Mr. Sharma who was allegedly successful an inebriated state.
The quality allegedly began aft farmers objected to Mr. Sharma signaling debased terms of a farmer’s harvest contempt it having received a higher bid.
Guna Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Shivani Pathak admitted that the inspector was intoxicated and had misbehaved with the farmers.
“He had done incorrect marking of the terms aft which the traders had refused to bargain the coriander harvest successful protest. After the mandi caput alerted maine astir the situation, I had sent a squad of officials to resume the operations,” she said, adding that the purchasing began aft an hr of halt and that nary husbandman retired without selling.
Guna Collector Kishore Kanyal told The Hindu that a squad has besides been recovered to find the husbandman to code his concerns and ascertain if helium was capable to merchantability his crop.
“Our squad had visited his location but his household was not recovered there. We are successful interaction with his neighbours and trying to link with him,” helium said.
