The debt ridden trader who had consumed poison before entering BJP office last week, died during treatment at a hospital in Dehradun on Tuesday. Transporter Prakash Pandey from Tanakpur, in district Haldwani, took the extreme effort after facing deep financial crises.

The trader was getting treatment at Max Hospital in Dehradun, where he breathed his last. Expressing pain over the death, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said, “The state government provided best medical treatment. Every possible effort was made to save his life.”

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A new video of transporter Prakash Pandey has surfaced in the hill state. The video made minutes after consuming poison, the businessman claims he has consumed poison and there is no chance of his survival. He even says that BJP won because of Narendra Modi and the saffron party should not have come to power. Pandey praised Congress in last video sent to one of his friends.
Large number of Congress leaders gathered at the Max Hospital in Dehradun on Tuesday. Uttarakhand Congress president Pritam Singh said, “Prakash Pandey died because of GST and demonetization. It was a political murder. I demand the state government to provide compensation to the affected family.”

Prakash Pandey consumed before attending the ‘Janta Durbar’ of state agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal at the state BJP office here on 6 January. While interacting with the agriculture minister, the transporter accusing all the BJP leaders and claimed that he had come here by consuming poison. The minister was taken by surprise and asked police and other BJP members to take the person to hospital.

While police and other persons were taking the debt-ridden businessman to hospital he fainted inside the BJP office campus. Pandey was rushed to the state government run Doon Hospital, from where he was admitted to the Max hospital.

The death had its impact and Chief Minister Trivendra Rawat stayed away from many public function on Tuesday. Not many BJP leaders visited the Max Hospital. Heavy police force was deployed in the hospital. The postmortem of the trader was conducted at Max under the supervision of the Chief Medical Office by government doctors.
Close friends of Prakash Pandey claimed that the state government was not clearing Rs 50 lakh payment of the transporter. Which instigated the trader to end his life in a tragic way.