The union's ten-point demands include a ban on genetically modified crops, the cancellation of farm loans from nationalized banks, and more.
The Coordination Committee of Tamil Nadu All Farmers Associations (Tamil Nadu Anaithu Vivasayigal Sangangalin Orunginaippu Kuzhu) set out for Delhi on Thursday from Kanyakumari, demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep his word to farmers and stop the Delhi protest in 2020.
In the company of committee president P R Pandian, Samyukta Kisan Morcha leaders Shiv Kumar Kakkaji from Madhya Pradesh, and Baldev Singh from Punjab, MDMK chief secretary Durai Vaiko flagged off the road trip at Gandhi Mandapam.
Their ten-point demands include a bill to provide a profitable MSP for agricultural products, a ban on genetically modified crops, the cancellation of farm loans from nationalized banks, coordinated efforts to protect the Western Ghats and water resources, the withdrawal of cases brought against protesters in the Delhi protest, a ban on corporate companies from engaging in farming and agri-marketing, the provision of organic farming inputs to small farmers, local traders, and small business owners, and the introduction of legislation to bring about these changes.
All states will be visited during the ‘a long journey seeking justice' road trip, during which the farmers hope to encounter the chief ministers of every state which is not governed by the BJP.
Before departing for Kanyakumari on Friday, they will meet with Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister of Kerala. Durai Vaiko, who began the journey, urged farmers to make the threat posed by wild boars the eleventh demand because it has already begun wreaking havoc in delta districts.
