𝗔𝗜𝗞𝗦 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲, 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝘁𝗿𝗮, 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
It was in 1943-44 that the legendary AIKS leaders Shamrao and #GodavariParulekar first began AIKS work in the Murbad, Kalyan and Shahapur tehsils of South Thane district. The first conference of the Maharashtra Rajya Kisan Sabha was also held at Titwala in this area on 7 January 1945. But with the start of the glorious Warli Adivasi Revolt in the Talasari, Dahanu and Palghar tehsils of North Thane district, AIKS work in South Thane district, except in Shahapur, declined.
With new activists who are about to be relieved from the #SFI taking the lead, the AIKS was restarted in Murbad with this Land Rights Convention.
The convention was presided over by AIKS President Dr Ashok Dhawale and was inaugurated by #CITU State Secretary Vinod Nikole विनोद निकोल , MLA. AIKS State Council members from Thane-Palghar and Raigad districts Kiran Gahala, Bharat Walamba, Ramchandra Mhatre and Sanjay Thakur, and AIDWA State Secretary Prachi Hatiwlekar placed various aspects of the land question and the PDS issue.
The welcome speech was by P K Lali, and the introductory speech was by Dr Kavita Vare. Some resolutions on local land issues were adopted. A 25-member AIKS Murbad Tehsil Committee, with Dinesh Jadhav as President and Dr Kavita Vare as Secretary, was elected. The booklet published by the AIKS Maharashtra State Council, ‘Woh Subah Kabhi to Aayegi – Songs of Struggle’ sold well.
Dr Kavita Vare, currently an SFI CEC Member, who had just won her Ph.D. from the Mumbai University on the topic “Changing Pattern of Land Holding and its Impact on Politics in Raigad District”, was felicitated on this occasion.
