A standard incident of farmers against corrupt officials in setting up cow sheds
Farmers who protested in a traditional manner claiming that they were involved in corruption in the construction of cow sheds, brought a procession with drums and held a ceremony to praise the Pongalur Regional Development Officers. A standard incident of farmers against corrupt officials in setting up cow sheds. Both Lakshmanan and Kandaswamy, who are working as regional development officers of the Pongalur panchayat union next to Palladam in Tirupur district, are said to have committed corruption in the central government's cowshed construction project by installing iron bars of less than the weight prescribed by the government and constructing buildings in a substandard manner.
Following the corruption, the farmers from the Pongalur area protested by holding their cows, bringing an array of vegetables along with drumsticks, and trying to hold a felicitation ceremony for the district development officers. Also, the police who were on security duty in front of the regional development office stopped the farmers who tried to hold a felicitation ceremony by garlanding the officials who were corrupt in setting up cowsheds for the farmers under the central government scheme. After this, the farmers raised their protest slogans in front of the Farmers Regional Development office and dispersed from there.
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