A 52-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district due to crop failure and debt burden, police said Friday. The purported suicide note of Dhanraj Baliram Navhate, resident of Pahapal in Pandharkawda tehsil, blamed the BJP-Shiv Sena government in the state for his plight, police said.

Navhate had four acres of agricultural land and owed Rs 2 lakh to a private money lender, a police official said. According to his family, he had faced repeated crop failures in the recent years. Navhate left house Wednesday morning to visit his married daughter in Vani, but did not return till late in the evening next day. His body was found in a pit in his farm. Preliminary examination suggested that he had taken poison.