AIADMK cadre, environmental activists and residents of nine villages held a day-long protest against the State government’s plan to acquire a vast tract of land for the proposed phase-3 project of SIPCOT industrial park at the Anakavoor panchayat union near Cheyyar town in Tiruvannamalai on Wednesday.
The protest, led by former AIADMK Minister Sevur S. Ramachandran, was announced by AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami last week. A large number of cadre from most of the 18 panchayat unions in the district participated in the protest, raising slogans against the DMK government for anti-farmer policies and initiatives. “Despite being thriving farming villages, the identified lands were classified as wastelands, making the State government opt for land acquisition for the project,” said K. Muthu, a resident.
