The farmers have been staging a protest in the national capital demanding a drought relief package of Rs 40,000 crore from the Centre for Tamil Nadu, farm loan waiver, setting up of the Cauvery Management Board and the unification of rivers among others.
Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and AIADMK leader M Thambidurai was present in the farmers' meeting with Jaitley.
On the eighth day of the protest, the farmers said they would continue to their dharna till they meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union ministers for Agriculture and Water Resources.
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