TIRUCHY: The inefficiency of the DMK government resulted in a tearful Deepavali for the Delta farmers as their harvested paddy had started sprouting due to procurement delay in the DPCs, said AIADMK General Secretary and Leader of Opposition Party Edappadi (LoP) K Palaniswami on Wednesday. “This is a testimony of a total failure of the state government,” he added.

Inspecting the rain-hit Delta region and consoling farmers whose harvested paddy stocks had been damaged in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, and Nagapattinam, Edappadi Palaniswami informed media persons that the harvested kuruvai, the fruit of farmers' hard work, had been waiting for more than 20 days for procurement. The monsoon rains that lashed across the region had further damaged the unprocured paddy. In certain areas, the paddy stoc

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