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Tamil Nadu farmers have accepted new farm laws: K Annamalai

COIMBATORE/ERODE: Alleging that opposition parties are politicizing Uttar Pradesh incident in which eight people including four farmers were killed, state BJP chief K Annamalai said that the farmers of Tamil Nadu have accepted the three farm laws introduced by his party. Talking to reporters in the city on Tuesday, Annamalai said that the UP incident was a fallout of politicization of the farm laws. “There are no protests against the three farm laws in Tamil Nadu. No farmer here protests the Centre on the laws. None of the farmers participated in the bandh against the Centre which is a sign that TN farmers have accepted the farm laws,’’ he said. “However, in Uttar Pradesh only certain farmers’ associations’ keep opposing the laws,’’ he added. Annamalai said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sought specific issues of concern in the farm laws that affect farmers, but none have pointed out any. Even the Supreme Court has questioned the farmers’ association on the logic behind the protests when the three laws have been kept in abeyance, he said. “The farm laws and the UP incident are two different things,” he said. Terming the accident and the subsequent violence that resulted in the death of eight people as tragic, Annamalai said that UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has assured that those behind the incident would be brought to book. “He has promised action on those who drove the car that ran over farmers. But opposition parties are attempting to politicize the incident. They shouldn’t do that,’’ he said. On the opposition to establishment of a nuclear waste centre in Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Annamalai said that plant has been functioning all these years without any problem following global scientific norms. “But all of sudden there is opposition to it. This is nothing but politics,’’ he said. In Erode, BJP cadres presented a goat to Annamalai on Tuesday. He came to Chennimalai to celebrate the 117th birth anniversary of Tiruppur Kumaran.

The Times of India

2021-10-06

Coimbatore