TIRUCHY: A section of farmers from Tiruchy staged a novel protest on Wednesday by ‘burying’ themselves in the Cauvery river bed, raising several demands, including adequate water release to tail-end regions and the waiver of crop loans.

The members from Desiya Thennidhiya Nadhigal Inaippu Sangam, headed by the state president P Ayyakannu, assembled at the Cauvery river bed close to the Cauvery bridge near Chinthamani and ‘buried’ themselves in the river sand and raised slogans in support of their demands.

Highlighting that several lakhs of cusecs of water are wasted into the sea, the protesting members urged the government to initiate measures to link the Ayyaru and the Cauvery from Mettur, thereby diverting a minimum of 2,000 cusecs into the canal. This minimal amount of water could ir

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