From students to Prime Minister, with love

On a day protesters hit the streets of Tamil Nadu and squatted on train tracks demanding the constitution of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and criticising the Centre for its resistance, students of a Tiruvarur school resorted to a less strident but more direct way by petitioning the Prime Minister.

More than 2,000 students of the Neelan Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Nidamangalam, Tiruvarur district, sat together in their school to pen a polite request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to constitute the CMB and save the suffering Tamil Nadu farmers. On their post cards, the students made bold to mention their individual names and addresses while seeking Mr. Modi’s intervention.

With dignity

Then, all the letters were collected and some 20 of the students took the bundles to the Nidamangalam Post Office and deposited them in the post box.

Earlier on Tuesday, these students had pleaded, again peacefully and with dignity, for the formation of the CMB by sitting in a group formation that stood for the letters of the Tamil alphabet that conveyed the demand: “We want CMB.”

“This is our way of politely putting forth our plea,” a student said.