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PUDUKOTTAI
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has urged the Tamil Nadu authorities to substantially summation the alleviation announced for Ditwah cyclone-affected farmers, calling the existing compensation “insufficient to conscionable adjacent basal cultivation losses.”
At the decision of its two-day State Committee gathering successful Pudukottai connected Wednesday, CPI(M) State Secretary P. Shanmugam said the enactment was pressing for ₹35,000 per acre for inundated paddy fields, alternatively of the ₹8,000 per acre announced by the State.
He said farmers crossed the Cauvery delta had suffered dense losses, with astir 3 lakh acres of samba and thaladi paddy submerged. Agricultural labourers deprived of enactment owed to the rains indispensable besides beryllium compensated, helium added, urging the Union authorities to merchandise capable funds from the Disaster Relief Fund.
Mr. Shanmugam said the CPI(M) extended afloat enactment to the bid of labour agitations scheduled for December 8, jointly organised by Left parties and the VCK against the Union government’s labour codes. These codes, helium said, dilute long-won idiosyncratic protections, grow declaration labour, and weaken occupation information for younker entering the workforce.
The enactment besides asked the State to resoluteness the ongoing protestation by Chennai Corporation conservancy workers, reiterating that sanitation responsibilities should not beryllium outsourced to backstage contractors and indispensable stay wrong the Corporation’s workforce.
Expressing displeasure with the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the CPI(M) said the hurried workout had created “widespread procedural confusion” and placed unreasonable unit connected booth-level officers. Bulk signifier submissions without verification and cases of BLOs facing stress-related trauma indicated superior systemic issues, the enactment said.
Mr. Shanmugam said the enactment had decided to taxable a ailment to the Chief Justice of India against Justice G.R. Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, alleging that definite caller verdicts reflected a “consistent bias.” He besides condemned the threats issued against Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan aft his disapproval of a tribunal directive related to the Karthigai Deepam astatine Tirupparankunram, and sought State extortion for the MP.
On the 2026 Assembly elections, Mr. Shanmugam said the enactment had prepared a database of constituencies wherever it expects to contest, including its existent seats successful Kilvelur and Gandarvakottai, but discussions with allies were yet to begin.
State Committee members, including U. Vasuki, M. A. Baby, K. Balakrishnan, G. Ramakrishnan, P. Sampath and K. Balabharathi, participated successful the two-day meeting.
