EPS borrowed farm loan waiver idea from DMK, says Kanimozhi

Tirupur: DMK M P Kanimozhi attacked the AIADMK government for its alleged failure to protect the interests of farmers, even as chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami was campaigning in Tirupur.
Addressing the public at Annur, which falls in Avinashi assembly segment, Kanimozhi said it was DMK president M K Stalin, who announced in January that farm loans would be waived in the state once DMK comes to power.“EPS woke up only because of the DMK announcement and hurriedly made the farm loan waiver promise.”
She said it was to hide the failure of the government in protecting the farmer’s rights and interests by supporting the three farm laws brought by the Centre that EPS had made the loan waiver announcement. “On the other hand, the DMK has always been a friend of the farmers.”
Even in the case of kudimaramathu scheme, Kanimozhi said, the AIADMK government had failed the farmers. “None of the waterbodies were properly desilted. The scheme was implemented only for the benefit of the AIADMK men to loot money,” she said taking a jibe at AIADMK men in Tirupur who hailed EPS as `kudimaramathu nayagan’.
Hitting out at EPS, she said the BJP-AIADMK combine has not only left farmers in the lurch, but other downtrodden sections too.