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 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial National Committee, Delhi, conferred the prestigious Chhatrapati Shivaji Award on AIKS national president Dr Ashok Dhawale in an impressive function held at the India Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi on December 17 evening. The…
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…
The All-India Kisan Sabha will stage a demonstration outside the District Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank in Bhiwani’s Siwani town on Friday in protest against shaming of farmers who have not paid off their loans. The bank has…
Farmers from Hisar, Haryana are planning to launch a stir after Bhiwani District Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank put up posters of 50 farmers who were unable to repay their loans accumulated over the years. The poster displayed…
Terming the BJP government at the Centre as anti-farmer, pro-corporate, and deeply communal, Ashok Dhawale, president of All-India Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ wing of CPI(M), attributed the party’s defeat in five States to “its betrayal to the farming community”. He…
NEW DELHI: The movements and struggles of farmers and workers for their rights across the Hindi heartland states -- Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh -- resonated in the poll outcome in these three states that ousted the anti-farmer and anti-worker BJP governments.…
राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में हाल में किसानों की जबरदस्त रैली देखने को मिली. यह रैली अखिल भारतीय किसान संघर्ष समन्वय समिति (एआईकेएससीसी) के बैनर तले 29-30 नवंबर को आयोजित की गई थी और इसे किसान मुक्ति मार्च नाम दिया गया. अखिल…
We often imagine “the Indian farmer” as a man, forgetting that women form a significant part of the agrarian economy. Yesterday, thousands of Indian farmers, from all over India, marched on parliament to demand the government’s attention and action. Delhi-based…
All India Kisan Sabha condemns the planned attack on Chingravati police post of Bulandshahar and killing of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh as well as another civilian Sumit. It is also shocking to note that the police officer killed was…