The All India Kisan Sabha today said that Bharatiya Janata Party government failed to deliver on its “tall claims” of ensuring that it will fix minimum support prices according to the recommendations of the Swaminathan commission. “Four years of the…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today termed the Centre's decision to hike the minimum support price for paddy by Rs 200 per quintal a "historical betrayal" and accused the BJP-led NDA government of "hoodwinking" farmers with an eye on…
The agrarian sector of the economy has been suffering from an intense crisis over the last four years. The agrarian distress, whose origins lie in long-term neglect of agriculture particularly after 1991, intensified greatly over the last few years because…
BJP Government Denies Promised C2+50% and Assured Procurement Stop Hoodwinking Farmers With An Eye on Elections Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP had generated high hopes and got the support of farmers in 2014 elections by promising that…
AIKS joint secretary Vijoo Krishnan said the CACP stopped inviting many farmers’ organisations that oppose the Centre’s policies for discussions on MSP. “Cost plus 50 per cent remains a mirage. As a result of the Narendra Modi government’s refusal to…
Opposition parties see the prevalent farmer distress as the BJP’s Achilles’ heel, and plan to use the issue to unite ahead of the 2019 general elections. After farmers across Maharashtra took part in a march to Mumbai in March this…
The discontent in the agriculture sector is set to deepen in the state. Nationalised, cooperative and private banks have met only 26 per cent of their crop loan target of Rs 43,342 crore as on June 25 of this kharif…
To continue its struggle against the BJP government's neo-liberal policies and misrule, a group of trade unions and farmers organisations have decided to conduct a worker-peasant rally and a long march in Delhi on the lines of one organised…
For the first time since Independence, lakhs of farmers and workers would hold a rally in Delhi in September against the "anti-people" policies of the NDA government at the Centre, the All India Kisan Sabha said today. The farmers' organisation…