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E Palaniswami meets protesting Tamil Nadu farmers, urges Centre to waive off loans

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami today met farmers from his state who've been protesting at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar. He also asked the Centre to take note of the farmers' demand and waive off their loans.

 

He asked them to end their protest - which has now gone on for several weeks - and said a memorandum of their demands would be submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow.

 

Over the last 40 days, they have shaved their heads and half their moustaches and kept mice and snakes in their mouths, conducted mock funerals, flogged themselves and even carried skulls of other farmers who had committed suicide due to debt pressure.

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