Tamil Nadu Assembly Election | Palaniswami says that farming is my hereditary occupation

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday attacked DMK president MK Stalin, calling him a ‘fake farmer’ and that farming was his ‘hereditary occupation’. Mr. Stalin said, spend time inside an ‘air-conditioned room’ and have no clue about farming.

While campaigning for PMK candidate Murali Shankar in Vandavasi constituency of Tiruvannamalai district, Mr. Palaniswami said that when the political parties said that they would forgive agricultural loans as an election promise, the state government had already approved the loan. Was forgiven.

Listing a number of measures, Mr. Palaniswami said that his government has implemented farm loan waivers to benefit 16.43 lakh farmers, spending Rs 1,300 crore under the Kudiramarthu scheme for better water management, covering 40,000 lakes. , Are falling regularly for ponds and other water resources. The PWD Ministry and other local bodies provided relief of ₹ 2247 crore to farmers affected by drought and other natural calamities and gave urs 9,300 crore to farmers through crop insurance scheme under other schemes.

“Although I have done a lot, Mr. Stalin calls me a ‘fake farmer’. Is there a fake and an original one when it comes to a farmer? Mr. Stalin used the four-foot-high concrete way to plow the field Wearing pants, shirts and shoes. He is a fake farmer. While I take off my shirt and work in the field. Farming is my hereditary occupation. You are attracting farmers with a purpose. Mr. Stalin spent his life in an AC room They did not know farming.

He further said that the state government will provide land and concrete houses to poor, landless farmers. “Scheduled caste families will also get pucca houses and will be given matric scholarship for higher education,” he said.

Mr. Palaniswamy reiterated his promises that the state government would give a monthly 1,500 per month to the female head of every family, give six free gas cylinders every year, waive loans for women in self-help groups and also promised that the state government would protect Will continue to increase the rights of Muslims and their Haj pilgrimage subsidy from ₹ 6 crores to 10 crores.