The protest was staged in response to a call by the Samyuktha Kisan Morcha to observe May 26 as black day marking six months of the farmers protest and agitations against the controversial farm laws of the central government.
Cadres of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and leaders and cadres of various other organisations like the Tamil Maanila Vivasaya Thozhilalar Sangam hoisted black flags on top of their homes in Thanjavur, Trichy and other districts in the central region of the state.
P. Ayyakkannu, President, Desiya Thennidiya Nadigal Innaippu Vivasaiygal Sangam told IANS, ” We are expressing solidarity with the agitating farmers of North India. We are observing May 26 as black day and have raised black flags on top of our homes and we have staged a protest march. We want the central government to repeal the anti-farmer laws with immediate effect.”
Earlier, the cadres and leaders of Desiya Thennidiya Nadigal Innaippu Vivasayigal Sangam staged a protest by squatting on the Karur by-pass road in Trichy.
TN Assembly will pass resolution against 3 farm laws: Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin on Wednesday said the government will bring a resolution in the state Assembly asking the Union government to withdraw the three farm laws.
The three farm laws brought in by the government are — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
In a statement issued here Stalin recalled his party DMK’s poll promise of passing a resolution asking the Union government to withdraw the three farm laws and pass necessary law for that.
Stalin said six months has passed since the farmers are agitating against the three farm laws passed by the Union government.
The DMK President Stalin also said it is a worrying factor that the Union government has not tried to have a constructive dialogue with the farmers to resolve the issue nor it has taken steps to revoke the three farm laws. -IANS
