Accusing the government of not fulfilling the promises made last year, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Tuesday announced that the peasants' bodies would once again take out a long march from Nashik to Mumbai beginning 20 February. "The farmers…
Plassey (West Bengal): This was the place where India lost its independence to the British East India Company after the Battle of Plassey, when the last Nawab of Bengal, Sirajuddaula, lost to Lord Clive after being betrayed his trusted general,…
In Runni Saidpur village of the Sitamarhi district of Bihar, 316 landless families have been living on 10.7 acres of land. These families mostly earn their livelihood through agricultural labour, and the population consists of several Dalit families. Fifty-one people…
The All India Kisan Sabha raised the demands of remunerative prices, i.e. one-and-a-half times the cost of production for all crops and their assured procurement at that price and punishment to those who pay less than that price and a…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Wednesday condemned as “insensitive” a statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi equating farm loan waivers to lollipops. “In times of acute agrarian crisis, falling farm incomes and growing indebtedness, loan waiver has a…
The All India Kisan Sabha while condemning the attack has asked the Congress government to take immediate action against the culprits. “It is shocking that the police have arrested the victim on the charge of “cow smuggling” while not taking…
The All India Kisan Sabha Tuesday called for 'Gramin Bharat Bandh' on January 8 and 9 to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "non-committal" stand on farm loan waiver. In a two-day meeting the Central Kisan Council has taken a resolution…
Buoyed by the announcement of farm loan waiver by Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh governments, Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Tuesday said it will hold another round of protest in the rural parts of the country to press for…
The farm loan waivers announced by the new Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh should have their cut-off dates extended to December 2018, the All India Kisan Sabha has demanded. The governments had set a cut-off date of March…
The Karnataka Pranth Raith Sangh (AIKS) on December 12 organised a 2000-strong peasant rally at Kalburgi (Gulbarga). It comprised a large number of peasant women. The bulk of peasants were from Kalburgi district, and main activists from neighbouring districts like…