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Delhi: Biting mice to rolling on ground, Tamil farmers stage unique protests

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Post by Guest Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:57 pm

EVERY EVENING for the last 22 days, a group of farmers from Tamil Nadu have sat together outside a makeshift tent in Jantar Mantar to discuss what shape their protest will take the next day. They did so on Tuesday, too, before a dust storm followed by heavy rainfall had them scurrying for shelter across the road in the corridors of a government office.

In the days leading up to this, they had protested with skulls, which some claimed belonged to farmers who had lost their lives in a severe drought that has gripped Tamil Nadu. They had protested with live mice, which they held up to their mouths indicating that they will have to eat rodents if the situation gets any worse. They have demanded a loan waiver, a drought relief package of Rs 40,000 crore from the Centre and the setting up of a Cauvery Management Board.

On Wednesday, with no response from the government, they unveiled their latest form of protest — an ‘angapradakshinam’, one of the highest acts of devotion in temples of South India, where men and women roll on the floor around the place of worship aided by attendants.

http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-biting-mice-to-rolling-on-ground-tamil-farmers-stage-unique-protests-at-jantar-mantar-4601387/

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