Over 30,000 farmers were on streets in March to protest against government’s ignorance towards them; Ajit Nawale (inset) at a Kisan Sabha meeting; PIC: NIKHIL GHORPADE Members of the Kisan Sabha have alleged that despite giving assurances, the government…
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 Left-affiliated All Indian Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Tuesday said on Monday that it would stage a demonstration on June 1 to compel the State government to fulfil promises made to farmers. Members of the AIKS will government offices across…
While the Maharashtra state government had managed to pacify the angry farmers who marched to Mumbai from across the state a month earlier, farmers have yet again threatened the government of a massive protest. The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS),…
ON March 12, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) pulled off a major victory. A farmers’ protest rally which began in Nashik grew into a major movement within days. The Long March, as the movement was called, attracted nearly 50,000…
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-affiliated State Kisan Sabha on Tuesday staged a rally outside the Vidhan Sabha and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister. The farmers are demanding an immediate check and end to evacuation of agricultural land…
The farmers, after their historic #KisanLongMarch from Nashik to Mumbai that brought the Maharashtra government to its knees, took out a massive Victory March today to celebrate their success. Within 24 hours another group of farmers remembered fellow kisan Pehlu…
Thousands of protesting farmers marched to the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha under the aegis of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) – the CPI(M)’s farmer front – to protest against forced evictions from the lands that they till, the price of…
A year since Pehlu Khan was killed allegedly by cow vigilantes in Rajasthans Alwar district, his eldest son Irshad has been fighting a two-front war as the only breadwinner in the family and seeking justice for his father. With the…
Marking one year of lynching of Pehlu Khan, a dairy farmer, who was attacked on April 3 last year in Alwar, Rajasthan, by a group of 200 cow vigilantes "affiliated" with right-wing Hindutva groups, India's top land rights group, Bhumi Adhikar Andolan…