IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, April 23: The 100-odd Tamil farmers, who have been protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for the post one and half months, called off their protest after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met them today on the site and promised to fulfill their demands. The farmers, however, warned that if the promises were not kept, they would resume the protest, a bigger one, from 25th of May.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Sunday met with protesting farmers from his state at the Jantar Mantar and assured help.
The farmers have protested here for the past 40 days and demands loan waivers, drought relief packages and formation of a Cauvery management board to resolve their irrigation issues.
Palaniswami, in a brief 20 minutes meeting, assured that he will take up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funds to waive off the loan and urged the farmers to end their protest.
In past 40 days, the protesting farmers have marched naked outside the Prime Minister’s office, ate mice, shaved their heads, marked mock funerals and on Saturday even drank their urine to attract the central government and the Prime Minster’s attention towards their cause and plight.
–With inputs from IANS
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