Farmers in Krishnagiri stage token hunger fast for full crop loan waiver

The Tamizhaga Vivasayigal Paadhukaapu Sangam staged a token hunger accelerated demanding a full workplace indebtedness waiver by the State government, present connected Monday (June 22, 2026).

The protesters, led by the association, gathered astatine Gurubarapalli and staged a protestation against the caller announcements of workplace indebtedness waiver for cooperative loans astatine a headdress of up to ₹75,000 and lone for borrowings wrong 2025-26. According to the association, farmers were grappling with issues including workplace recognition and indebtedness owing to harvest losses from clime change.

The protesters alleged that the authorities had failed the farmers by not announcing a cosmopolitan harvest indebtedness waiver. According to the association, farmers were seeking to gully the government’s attraction for its nonaccomplishment to denote a afloat harvest indebtedness waiver arsenic promised successful its manifesto.