Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav today claimed that 28 persons have committed suicide due to cash crunch in Uttar Pradesh, stating that the Centre's demonetisation move has created an atmosphere of 'uncertainty'.

'A total of 28 persons have committed suicide in the state due to cash crunch. This is saddening... (the) prime minister should consider the massive problems being faced by commoners and farmers...,' he said.

'I appeal to people of the state not to get distressed. Samajawadi Party is with them. Poor daily wage earning labourers have been rendered jobless. They neither have bank accounts nor ATMs, and their daily chores depend on cash. They are left to die. Their future is in the dark,' he tweeted.

Shivpal, however, did not specify the details of the people who took the extreme step.