The Chief Minister has directed to provide Rs.1000 cash along with one kg of rice and sugar to all rice family card holders and families living in Sri Lankan Tamil rehabilitation camps to celebrate Thai Pongal in 2023.
In this situation, various political party leaders in Tamil Nadu are voicing that Rs.2500 should be given instead of Rs.1000 cash in the Pongal gift package and jaggery and sugarcane should be given in the gift package.
Following this, in a statement released by the State General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, Mutharasan, “The Pongal gift package that the Tamil Nadu government has been giving for the past few years has been announced. The Communist Party of India welcomes the Chief Minister’s announcement that all family card holders will be given one kg of rice, sugar and Rs.1000 in cash through fair price shops.
Meanwhile, last year there were 21 items in the gift package including tamarisk, sugar, cardamom, sugarcane and ghee. Disappointing that this year only rice and sugar have been declared. A question arises as to why “Sugar” is used for Pongal when we expect printed jaggery.
Ahead of the Pongal festival, the farmers who grew sugarcane, the coconut farmers and the public were expecting that “Coconut” should be included in the Pongal gift package this year. Informing the attention of the Tamil Nadu Government that all of them are waiting with great hope that the Chief Minister will review and present the Pongal gift package, January
The Tamil Nadu State Executive Committee of the Communist Party of India urges the Tamil Nadu government to provide Rs.1000 in cash, sugarcane, coconut, and a bunch of turmeric along with the 21 items given last year in the Pongal gift package that will begin on 2nd.
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