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TRICHY: Several farmers’ associations organized a protest on Saturday demanding that the Karnataka government be prevented from building a dam across the river Cauvery in Mekedatu. We have planned to send allletters before the Prime Minister’s visit to Madurai on January 27.” They claimed to have sent one lakh postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with this demand from the head post office in Trichy.Opposing the central government's move for allowing the Karnataka government to build a dam across Cauvery, functionaries of various farmers’ associations took out a protest by sending one lakh postcards to Modi, here on Saturday. “Farmers, students, traders, private employees are involved in the protest. When the Cauvery Management Board had already been formed on the direction of Supreme Court, the Karnataka government had no right to go further in this issue, Nagarajan said..