With less than a week left for the May 28 by-polls in Maharashtra’s two Lok Sabha constituencies – Palghar and Bhandara-Gondia, the opposition parties are set to present a tough battle for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While in…
On the same day the Maharashtra government announced a Rs 3 per litre subsidy for dairies producing skimmed milk powder (SMP), dairy farmers in the state vowed to continue their protest. “Dairies which produce 20 per cent extra SMP than…
Farmers in Maharashtra will court arrests on May 14 to protest the state government’s “failure” to keep various welfare assurances it had given to them earlier. Leaders of farmers and various political fronts said they are planning the ‘jail bharo’…
Upset with the state government’s failure to keep promises, farmers across the state will hold a “jail bharo” protest on May 14, the birth anniversary of Sambhaji Maharaj. A farmers’ committee said that farmers in every district will support the…
After the massive farmer’s agitation in March, another protest is slated to take place on May 14 when lakhs of farmers will undertake a ‘Jail Bharo andolan’ to protest against the state government. Approximately 25 farmer organisations, who have now…
Farmers in Maharashtra will court arrests on May 14 to protest the state government's "failure" to keep various welfare assurances it had given to them earlier. Leaders of farmers and various political fronts said they are planning the 'Jail Bharo'…
Farmer organisations in Maharashtra have called a ‘jail bharo’ andolan (agitation) on May 14, the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, across the state, demanding a complete waiver of loan and electricity bills, scrapping of the Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway and refinery…
For someone from a family of doctors, grass-roots activism for peasants was once a world away for Ashok Dhawale, president of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) which spearheaded the Kisan Long March in Maharashtra this year. But it was…
Upset by loss of livelihoods, unfulfilled promises Mumbai: The 1.5 kilometres from Sagar Naka to Paar Naka in Dahanu was a river of red on Thursday. More than 50,000 farmers from over 60 villages in the Thane-Palghar district in red…