Amidst slogans of protesting farmers are echoing in different regions across the country, the Himachal Pradesh fraction of All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has given a call to encircle the state assembly in Shimla on April 3. The protest call…
“The BJP’s loan waiver promise was a big joke to farmers,” UP Kisan Sabha leader Mukut Singh said. Arguments notwithstanding, the opposition found an opportunity to mock at the loan waiver scheme. Farm loan waiver was among the major promises…
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Monday said it was thrilled with the successful farmers protests in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which had given strength to the farmers' cause and expanded agitations across the country. The support from non-farmer…
The 180-km long march, defying the sweltering March sun, by around 40,000 small and marginal farmers, led by the Left-leaning All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), has been a huge morale booster for the trade union movement in the country as…
The farmers’ show of strength in Mumbai this month forced the BJP-led Maharashtra government to accept their demands “100 per cent”. It was the culmination of a year-long agitation by farmers who had gone on strike in 2017 — a…
Present growth model of the country has benefited just a small population and caused deprivation for a larger number. The only solution for a better economic model is to alleviate farm distress. Source: Reorient India’s governance model
The vineyards of Nashik clothe northwest Maharashtra’s semi-arid expanse in colours subtly contrasting with the lush greenery of his native village in Kerala. It has a name with resonance—Karivellur hosted a Communist uprising in 1946, three decades before Vijoo Krishnan…
Over 30,000 farmers marched to Mumbai, from different parts of Maharashtra, for five days from March 7 to 12 to draw the State government’s attention to their demands, that included transfer of forestland to tribals who had been tilling it…
For the thousands of farmers from Maharashtra’s tribal districts who walked to Mumbai, the demand for land ownership is tied to their hopes for a better life — that they can dig wells, take loans and live without the fear…