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Farmers in Sikar district are again up in arms against the Rajasthan government after crash in onion prices with rising arrivals of the produce, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) leaders said. AIKS, the CPI(M)-affiliated farmers’ organisation, plans a demonstration at…
In a bid to ensure that their needs are fulfilled, farmers of the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan will make an attempt to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and give him a list of their demands. PM Modi is slated to…
Amraram, vice-president of Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sabha, told The Tribune, "It was another success of farmers' agitation. The CM should have covered all commercial banks under loan waiver." Source: Rajasthan extends crop loan waiver to all farmers
Despite crackdowns and arrests before the ‘farmers march’ to Jaipur on February 22, farmers had organised blockades across the state. The movement led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has been demanding loan waiver and a Minimum Support Price…
Raje’s directives are significant keeping in view the warning sent out by the All India Kisan Sabha, which has threatened that it will not allow any minister to enter the villages until the loan waiver issue was resolved. The state…
Farmers affiliated to the All India Kisan Sabha, whose attempt to lay an indefinite siege to the Rajasthan Assembly was foiled here last week, have intensified their agitation for a blanket farm loan waiver. The Bharatiya Janata Party government had…
Section 144 of the IPC, prohibiting an assembly of more than four people in an area, was imposed in Sikar district on the morning of 1st March. The district witnessed a massive farmers’ resistance movement last September, which was followed…
After being stopped from entering Jaipur to register their protests against the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP regime, Rajasthan Kisan Sabha has decided to give the government a taste of its own medicine. The farmers, who had decided to lay siege around…
The fighting peasantry of Rajasthan under the banner of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) last week emerged victorious after yet another battle, this time against the dastardly repression of the BJP state government. The Rajasthan Kisan Sabha had given…
Former MLAs Amra Ram, Pema Ram and farmer leader Charan Choudhury said chief minister Vasundhara Raje and her ministers would be barred by farmers from entering villages. This will be done to show political leaders that if ordinary farmers cannot…