NewsPatrolling -On Saturday, a group of Tamil Nadu farmers stopped just short of drinking urine as part of an ongoing agitation at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to demand drought relief funds and waiver of agricultural loans from the central government.
The farmers’ protest has entered its 40th day today.
Although the agitators had vowed to drink urine and eat faeces over the weekend if their demands were not met, they reconsidered their stomach-churning strategy after the Delhi Police intervened. Instead, the farmers decided to collect the urine in a bucket and send it back to Tamil Nadu.
“We may not be allowed to drink urine, but it’s within our rights to collect it in a bucket. As we got neither water nor justice in Delhi, we will take our urine back home. We have no water there,” said P Ayyakkannu, state president of the National South Indian Rivers Linking Farmers Association, who is leading the protest.
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