(CNN) — A male in India set himself on glow and afterwards grabbed a politician during a live radio discuss this week in a northern state of Uttar Pradesh, authorities said.

Police pronounced Durgesh Kumar Singh came out of a throng Monday as India’s state-owned radio hire Doordarshan available a discuss during a park in Sultanpur, about 100 miles from a city of Lucknow.

He set himself fervent with gasoline and threw himself on Kamruzzama Fauji, a internal politician from a Bahujan Samaj Party. Singh died in a sanatorium a day later. Fauji is in vicious condition with browns over 80% of his body, military said.

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The superintendent of military for Sultanpur district, Pratibha Ambedkar, was scheming for a revisit by state Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav when she got a call from her bureau about a male melancholy to set himself on fire. “By a time we reached there, he had already set himself ablaze,” Ambedkar told CNN.

Singh, 35, had formerly worked during a flour indent in Amethi, a adjacent district.

His motives have nonetheless to be confirmed, though authorities pronounced a man’s family claims he was being treated for mental instability. “Before a incident, a male also done a call to a internal military control room angry of nuisance from his family,” pronounced Ambedkar.

India is in a midst of a national parliamentary elections, that interpretation May 12. During elections, several news channels mostly theatre shows in villages and towns opposite a country, enchanting politicians with internal voters.

Voting in Uttar Pradesh, one of a country’s many populous states, began Wednesday morning.