In his inimitable style, controversial Congress MP from Vijayawada Lagadapati Rajagopal finally called off his ‘‘fake’’ fast-unto-death, by his own admission, here on Tuesday.
‘‘I was on a real, Mahatma Gandhi deeksha (hunger strike) for five days and seven hours till December 20th evening when police forcibly broke my camp and admitted me to the Government hospital in Vijayawada where doctors administered IV fluids to me,’’ he explained at a press conference here.
Hurt by ‘charges’ levelled by his daughter who ‘disappeared’ from a private hostel in the city some time ago, a farmer of Ungutur village in West Godavari district committed suicide on Friday.