MUMBAI: About 50,000 farmers from 23 districts will take out a week-long march in Maharashtra from Wednesday, February 20. The march will begin from Nashik at 4 pm and culminate in Mumbai on February 27. The march, led by the…
THE NASHIK police on Tuesday refused permission for the All India Kisan Sabha’s (AIKS) second “long march” from Nashik to Mumbai, starting February 20. However, AIKS leaders said that they would go ahead with the planned march and thousands of…
Nearly a year after the first Kisan Long March from March 6 to 12, 2018, the AIKS Maharashtra state council held at Nashik on February 4, 2019, took the major decision of launching a second massive Kisan Long March in…
Download: pdf, epub, mobi for kindle Buy a print copy It was an incredible sight – 40,000 poor farmers and landless labourers walking over 200 kilometres, from Nashik to Mumbai. They captured the city’s imagination and left it with an enduring memory. They outsmarted far…
They made the deaf hear and the blind see. The Kisan Long March in Maharashtra caught the imagination of the people, and received their unstinted love and support. It was an amazing struggle, the likes of which have not been…
Even as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis tried to allay the concerns of farmers in a two-hour meeting on Sunday, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) said it was not convinced by the assurances and would go ahead with the farmers’…
The All India Kisan Sabha had pointed out that the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi was only aimed at creating an illusion of a farmer-friendly Government while vast majority of the peasantry, especially landless and tenant farmers were excluded from…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), which is planning to undertake a second “long march” of farmers from Nashik to Mumbai beginning February 20 to press for their demands, has claimed that the state government is trying to disrupt the…
MUMBAI: Farmers' leader Ajit Navale claimed on Saturday that the BJP-led state government was trying to suppress the proposed Kisan Long March, to be led by All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), to raise their voice against the betrayal of farmers in…
Raging over the central and the state governments' 'failure' to deliver to the demands of farmers, members of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (ABKS) have planned to launch a massive rally from Nashik to Mumbai, between February 20 and 27. Over…