Summary: "Myself and CPM affiliated TN Farmers' Association general secretary P Shanmugam will participate", CPM state secretary G Ramakrishnan told mediapersons.The party, he said, would come up with advisories to the government.
An all-party meeting called by the DMK in Chennai on Sunday chose to observe a bandh in Tamil Nadu on April 25 to highlight the sufferings of farmers.
The meeting passed around 15 resolutions.
Outlining the resolutions adopted at the meeting, DMK Working President MK Stalin said the Opposition leaders and farmers will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi to demand farm loan waiver and press for the creation of a Cauvery River Authority and Cauvery Management Committee.
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A public meeting will be held here on April 22 to explain the need for the bandh, the resolution said.
One of the resolutions also condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not meeting the agitating farmers and solve their problems and chose to lead an all party delegation to meet Mr Modi along with representatives of various farmers' associations and solve their problems. Hundreds of state farmers have been protesting at Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding that their loans be waived off by the Centre.
The meeting urged the Centre and state governments to declare the Cauvery Delta region as Special Agriculture Zone. It is the first time since 2008 that two the Communist parties were participating in a meeting convened by the DMK.
He demanded that the all party meeting convened by the DMK to discuss issues confronting farmers should extend its support to the rail blockade agitation. "After we walked out of the UPA alliance in 2008 on the nuclear deal, we had not participated in any meeting called by the DMK", said a CPM leader.
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