At least 200 activists of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party in Surgana joined the CPI(M) mass organisation All India Kisan Sabha in support of the protest and agitation for farmers rights. They were welcomed with slogans of…
Today June 12 is the 31st anniversary of the martyrdom of Comrade Laxman Bagul. This Adivasi comrade was killed in police firing on June 12, 1987 at Vanganbari village near Umbarthan in the Surgana tehsil of Nashik district, during the…
On June 3, 2018, a large convention against the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train, a pet elitist project of the BJP’s Modi government that will lead to disastrous land acquisition from the peasantry in both Maharashtra and Gujarat, was held at…
On June 3, a large Convention against the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train, a pet elitist project of the BJP's Modi Government that will lead to disastrous land acquisition in both Maharashtra and Gujarat, was held at Palghar by the Bhoomi…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has said that its members would gherao government offices on June 5. Dr. Ajit Nawale, general secretary, said that farmers would “gift” people tur dal imported from Mozambique, sugar from Pakistan, and milk from…
Today June 1 is the first anniversary of the historic Farmers Strike in Maharashtra. The AIKS held large gherao actions at the district collectorates and tehsil offices all over Maharashtra. Thousands of farmers participated in these actions in about 25…
Exactly a year after their historic agitation across Maharashtra, farmers in the state will once again hold protests from June 1 over their various "unresolved" demands like higher milk purchase prices and complete loan waiver. Source: Maharashtra farmers to protest…
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…