Campaigning reaches feverish pitch in Tiruchi district
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AIADMK candidate of Thiruverumbur constituency P. Kumar canvassing on Saturday.
On the penultimate day of the campaign for the Assembly elections, candidates of various political parties on Saturday were engaged in hectic last minute electioneering to woo voters.
Candidates of recognised and registered political parties, who began their campaign shortly after nomination by their parties, hit the streets with their supporters and cadre. They visited residential colonies, apartments, urban slums, villages and hamlets and met voters. Some candidates also met influential personalities, caste and religious leaders and heads to muster support.
Farmers protest alleging discrimination
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Farmers led by All India Kisan Sabha state president S. Palanisamy protested in front of the R.S. Puram Uzhavar Sandhai (farmers’ market) on Tuesday morning alleging discrimination in enforcing rules.
Mr. Palanisamy said the Agricultural Marketing Department officials while allowing farmers or their representatives to sell vegetables grown in the hill denied the same relaxation to farmers who were within 40km radius. The officials insisted that only farmers who had the permit card to sell in farmers’ markets should set up shops and should not send their family members or farm labourers. This was unfair because the farmer would be tending to farm in the morning and therefore would have to depute somebody in his place.
Price of small onions that touched a peak of ₹130 a kg last month dropped to ₹50 a kg at the wholesale vegetable market due to the arrival of fresh produce from Maharashtra. Unseasonal rains in Januar
Rain spoils business of traders
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The intermittent and unseasonal rain has dealt a severe blow to the business of seasonal traders of sugarcane stalks and turmeric leaves.
The sellers usually set up temporary stalls on street corners and thickly populated areas to sell edible sugarcane, turmeric and puja items at least two days prior to Pongal.
Not many traders preferred to turn up this year due to rain battering different parts of the district for the last one week. Sugarcane was sold mainly at the vegetable markets and farmers markets. There were, however, a small section of farmers and seasonal traders, who set up stalls in thickly populated places to cash in on the demand.