Drought, jallikattu top on PMK’s resolutions for 2017

PMK has been the only party, which had been staging protests for closure of liquor outlets for several years now. 

“As a result, the state government closed a total of 604 outlets located along the National Highways in 2013. Further, the PMK did not give up the protests and it has continuously been protesting for the last four years, prompting activists to file the case in the Supreme Court, which directed all the state governments to shut the outlets situated along the State and National Highways within March, 2017,” the resolution said. Another resolution demanded the Centre to declare TN as ‘drought hit’. 

“After 14 years, the state has faced unprecedented ‘drought’. Still worse, farmers in the state are unable to take up ‘Kuruvai’ cultivation. However, this year, both nature and Karnataka have joined hands to betray the farmers and all kind of crops have wilted,” the PMK has stated in the resolution. 

Stating that water scarcity and deficient rainfall drove a total of 47 delta farmers to commit suicide, another resolution noted that the state government failed to consider such a serious situation and has not even conveyed any consolation to the kin of the deceased. The resolution also stressed the Centre to constitute Cauvery Management Board (CMB). The resolutions also included fishermen and conducting Jallikattu issues.