Tribal Adivasi farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu, backed by the Left affiliated All India Kisan Sabha, protested against land acquisition for the bullet train project and the Mumbai-Vadodara super highway alleging that they are being forced to give up their land…
Highlighting the plight of the farming community, more than 50,000 farmers and villagers of Palghar district gathered at Dahanu and took out a rally to protest against the forceful land acquisition for various projects, mainly Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor (MAHSRC).…
Milk producing farmers are going to distribute milk free of cost at district and taluka centres for seven days from May 3, to protest the state's failure to intervene in falling milk procurement prices. Ajit Navale, farmer leader associated with…
On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national…
Farmers in election-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan as well as those in Punjab and Haryana will join their counterparts in Maharashtra to launch a strike from 1 June. The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ organization affiliated to the Communist…
In the hilly terrain at the northern tip of Western Ghats, bordering Maharashtra and Gujarat, lies Surgana, an erstwhile princely state ruled by tribal chieftains of the Mahadev Koli tribe. Surgana joined the instrument of accession to be part of…
Accusing the BJP-led Maharashtra government of not keeping the promises it had made to farmers last month, the Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today announced to organise another protest march on June 1. The AIKS had led the Long…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has threatened to conduct a statewide farmers’ march on June 1, similar to the one it had held in February, to protest against the government’s “indifference” towards the promises made to farmers. More than…
The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ organization affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, will launch yet another protest on farm issues from 1 June to mark the first anniversary of the Maharashtra farmer protests. The…
Close on the heels of the anniversary of the 2017 farmers’ strike, the state seems to be heading towards another agitation as over 20 farmers’ organisations announced on Wednesday that they intend to join the June 1 protest. The development…