JOIN USHundreds of farmers from Cauvery Delta region in Tamil Nadu will leave for New Delhi on Saturday to undertake an indefinite fast demanding immediate constitution of Cauvery Management Board.
The farmers allege that the Union Government was being "indifferent" towards Tamil Nadu by not constituting the CMB within six weeks of the Supreme Court judgement delivered on February 16.
The farmers, led by P R Pandian, President of the Coordination Committee of All Tamil Nadu Farmers Association, will leave from Mannargudi on Saturday morning and reach New Delhi on Monday via Chennai.
"As planned, we will launch an indefinite fast at the Parliament Street from Monday demanding immediate constitution of the CMB. Our protest will end only when the Centre heeds to our demands and implements the Supreme Court order in letter and spirit," Pandian said. Farmers in Tamil Nadu feel that the CMB would ensure timely release of water from reservoirs in Karnataka to the state for the cultivation of various crops.
The farmers would begin a procession from Mannargudi bus stand to the railway station on Saturday and reach Chennai by train the same evening. "We will board a train to New Delhi on Saturday night," Pandian said.