TIRUCHY: Farmer-leader Ayyakannu has announced that members of their confederation will conduct black-flag protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Coimbatore, accusing him of promoting corporate interests over farmers.

The stir would be conducted across Tamil Nadu on Saturday, November 19, during the PM's Coimbatore visit to inaugurate the organic farming conference. Farmers claimed corporate firms had organised the conference, not the actual farmers.

Speaking to reporters in Tiruchy, leaders of the confederation of farmers' associations said the PM was ridiculing farmers by participating in a farmers' conference without any farmer involvement. PM Modi, who always speaks about how the farmers are the backbone of the country, is selling them out to corporates pr

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