TIRUCHY: Members from Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam affiliated to CPM across the region staged a protest in Thanjavur on Wednesday against the anti-farmer union government, which has only been supporting the corporate firms.

The members from Tiruchy, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Pudukkottai, Mayiladuthurai, Nagapattinam, Perambalur and Ariyalur assembled at the Panagal building in Thanjavur and staged a protest. The State General Secretary of the Sangam Sami Natarajan, who led the protest, said that the protest has been organised in four regions across the state, condemning the BJP-led union government for failing to implement the recommendations of MS Swaminathan on the MSP for which the farmers have been protesting for several years. 

“We want legal assurance for MSP, but the union government has been failing to pay attention to our repeated appeals”, Saminathan said.

He also said that around 24 lakh farmers have benefited from the free power supply across the state, but the Union government’s recent electricity bill amendment act refuses the benefit, and so the government should withdraw the Bill, he said.

Similarly, the recently announced seed draft bill 2025 would pave the way for the corporates to take control of the entire seed production in the country, which would directly affect the farmers. He also charged that the union government plans to implement certain disastrous projects in the delta region. “Thus, the union government has been working against the interest of the farmers and has been supporting the corporate firms”, he charged.

Earlier, the farmers raised slogans in support of their protest. They also sought the union government to withdraw the anti-farmer Bills introduced recently and initiate steps to provide profitable pricing for agricultural products.