Suicide in protest against GAIL project: Stalin announces solatium to farmer’s family

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday mourned the death of a farmer who protested against the GAIL pipeline project in Kariappanalli hamlet in Dharmapuri district.

He also announced a solatium of Rs 5 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund to the deceased’s family.

C. Ganesan had committed suicide in protest against the GAIL project by hanging from a tree at his farmland on Wednesday.

Chief Minster Stalin, in a statement, said that the DMK government was following the footsteps of former Chief Minister and party patriarch late M. Karunanidhi whose policy towards farmers was ‘a friend in need’.

The farmers are protesting against the proposed pipeline against GAIL in the Kariappanahalli hamlet and the farmers had blocked the Dharmapuri- Hoggenackal highway with the body of the deceased farmer for nearly six hours.

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