MK Stalin Doesn't Know Anything About Farming: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

K Palaniswami said MK Stalin does not know anything about farming and the AIADMK would be the first party to resist any move if farmers were to be affected.

Defending the centre's farm laws during his campaign for the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly polls, AIADMK top leader and Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Friday said his party opposed aspects like cess and levy for farmers but the DMK ''supported'' them. Hitting out at DMK chief MK Stalin who has been focusing on the farm laws and opposing them in his election propaganda, Mr Palaniswami said the former does not know anything about farming and the AIADMK would be the first party to resist any move if farmers were to be affected. Canvassing votes for Selvi Ramajayam, AIADMK nominee in Kurinjipadi, an agrarian constituency here, he said the protest in north India against farm laws was ''instigated'' by intermediaries but Mr Stalin could not even explain it. The AIADMK leader pointed to price volatility in farm markets to buttress his point. During sowing, tomato's market price may be Rs 40 per kilo but at the stage of harvest, the price could fall to even Rs 2 or 3 per kilo, he said.