Summary:
Tamil Nadu Sugar Cane Farmers Association secretary Thanga Kasinathan led the demonstration while president of the association P.M.
Khader Hussain spoke. more-inSugarcane growers staged a demonstration at the Gandhi Park here on Monday demanding inquiry into alleged case of two private sugar mills and a private bank transacting a loan of ? 31 crore on the pretext of disbursing funds to cane suppliers in 2002. They also alleged that the two sugar mills had not released funds to the bank accounts of the farmers from Kumbakonam, Tiruvidaimarudur, Tirupanandal, Tiruvaikavoor, Kuttalam, Mayiladuthurai and Karaikal who had supplied cane more than six years back. The Tamil Nadu Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the Cauvery Aycut Tenant Farmers Protection Association members participated in the demonstration where in they pointed out that the two private sugar mills and the private bank had shown a transaction of ?31 crore in the garb of disbursing the same to the cane growers for the cane supplied but the mills failed to release the funds to the farmers. For more than three hours, the farmers staged the demonstration forcing the officials to promise them that necessary action would be taken on the issue before Friday..