(TOI)
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 been protesting in the capital for the past 40 days and demand 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 to waive off the loan and urged the farmers to end their protest.
“We will try to cut down the unnecessary expenses and make arrangements … I will take up the farmer’s demands to the Prime Minister … We urge the farmers to end their protest,” Palaniswami said. P Ayyakannu, president of the National-South Indian Rivers Linking Farmers Association, who is also leading the protest, said the agitation will not end until their demands are met which also includes meeting the Prime Minister.
