While Onion seemingly reserved its place in Indian politics in the middle of heated issues across the country as the unfortunate and skyrocketing prices of Onion had brought the people to took the streets to urge the governments to lower the shortages, the political parties had rocked the floors of the Parliament through staging the protests against the ruling party and state of Tamil Nadu is not out of the track in hosting the politics over Onion.

The state has been witnessing the increasing trend of the prices of Onion for the past few weeks due to which the state government had proposed to procure the Onion from overseas to tackle the demand and the shortage but despite that, the inflow of Onion has been decreasing that had made the price to gear up.  By having this situation where the people have been coming through the uncertain grounds across the consumption, the state opposition leader and DMK President M K Stalin has, on Monday, accused the state government of not bothering about the increasing Onion prices in the state.

In a statement, M K Stalin said that the states like West Bengal, Odisha, and, Telangana had initiated the mechanisms to keep the Onion price at Rs 40 per kilogram and slashed the state government of Tamil Nadu by failing to reduce the prices. By blaming the state food minister on the prevailing uncertainty among the people in consuming the vegetables, he added that if the ruling ADMK government fails to control the prices of vegetables, it will certainly lose the support from the people.

The statement from Stalin has come a day after Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami had asserted that the Onion prices will come down in the next twenty days. While addressing the reporters in Coimbatore on Sunday, Palaniswami said that the state is supposed to procure Onions from the other states and cited that the states which would supply Onions to Tamil Nadu had witnessed severe rainfall that had affected and devastated the cultivation of Onions following which the inflow from those states have reduced that has now made the price to increase.

By claiming that Tamil Nadu is not the only state to witness the skyrocketing prices of Onion, he stated that the government has been procuring the onions from abroad to meet the demands and added that the current situation would become to normalcy in the next 15-20 days. In Chennai markets, the retail selling price of the Onions stood at Rs 160 per kilogram on Sunday.