Farmers from delta districts plan to lay siege to Mekedatu dam construction site

A radical of farmers from delta districts embarked connected a travel to Mekedatu successful Karnataka wherever they person planned to laic siege to the tract wherever the Karnataka authorities projected to physique a dam crossed the Cauvery.

According to P.R. Pandian, wide secretary, Thamizhaga Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam, the delta farmers person decided to registry their protestation by staging a objection astatine Mekedatu connected May 31 arsenic their earlier pleas for not to spell up with the dam operation had failed to evoke favourable response.

The protesting farmers’ group, headed by him, near Thanjavur connected Saturday greeting aft garlanding the statue of Raja Raja Chola adjacent the Big Temple. The squad would walk done Tiruchi, Namakkal, Salem, Dharmapuri, and Hosur to participate Karnataka done the Zuzuvadi inter-State borderline to scope projected Mekedatu dam tract connected May 31.