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The Union authorities has rejected Tamil Nadu’s petition to summation the permissible moisture contented for paddy procurement from 17% to 22%, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said connected Thursday (November 20, 2025). Following dense rains received successful assorted parts of Tamil Nadu, the State authorities had requested for an summation successful permissible moisture content.
Terming the rejection arsenic “yet different betrayal,” Mr. Stalin, successful a societal media station connected Thursday wrote: “The Prime Minister could not perceive to the dependable of Tamil Nadu requesting to procure paddy with much moisture contented owed to dense rains? Why could not helium [the Prime Minister] perceive to the dependable of farmers? Why couldn’t helium [the Prime Minister] spot their tears?”
Recalling instances successful the past erstwhile the Union authorities accepted petition to summation the moisture contented successful paddy for procurement, Mr. Stalin asked: “Why has the Union government, which relaxed norms for expanding the moisture contented successful paddy procurement connected the petition by Tamil Nadu authorities successful the past, rejected it this time?”
The Chief Minister asked, “How bash you deliberation you are benefitting the farmers without granting immoderate alleviation for dense rains and besides not by relaxing norms to summation the permissible moisture contented for paddy procurement?”
Mr. Stalin appealed to the BJP-led Union authorities to reconsider and further hoped it would instrumentality a determination favouring the farming community.
The rejection of Tamil Nadu’s petition connected paddy procurement came conscionable a time aft the Prime Minister visited Coimbatore, 1 of the 2 cities for which Metro Rail task proposals were rejected by the BJP-led Union government, Mr. Stalin pointed out.
Three cardinal teams had visited assorted parts of Tamil Nadu and besides collected samples successful the past week of October. The Chief Minister wrote to the Prime Minister earlier this week reiterating the petition and sought for support astatine the earliest. It was 1 of the 3 demands made by Mr. Stalin to Mr. Modi connected behalf of the farmers of Tamil Nadu.
