Farmers take out protest march against Mekadatu project
The Hindu
Farmers led by the Tamizhaga Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam on Wednesday took out a protest march to the inter-State border slamming the Karnataka government’s Mekadatu dam project. The march was, however
Farmers led by the Tamizhaga Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam on Wednesday took out a protest march to the inter-State border slamming the Karnataka government’s Mekadatu dam project. The march was, however, scuttled by the police, with the rallying protesters indulging in a scuffle with the policemen deployed en route.
A little over 50 farmers led by P.R. Pandian, general secretary, Tamizhaga Cauvery Vivasayigal Sangam, had begun the rally from Tiruvarur at the tail-end of Cauvery delta on January 18, intending to cross over the inter-State border in Hosur to march to Mekadatu, the site of the contested project.













