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…
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday termed the two-day-old farmer agitation a publicity stunt, prompting accusations of "insensitivity" and of "insulting" the farmers. "Any organisation will have 500, 1,000, 2,000 or 40,000 farmers, and they have to do…
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday said some farmers have been staging protests just for the sake of media attention. Singh was quoted in ANI as saying, "It is natural that any farmers' organisation will have 1,000-2,000 farmers…
The farmers’ agitation in Maharashtra is likely to intensify in the coming week, with 12 organisations led by the Left-aligned Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (ABKS) on Saturday announcing plan to launch their own. A 10-day strike led by the Rashtriya…
The Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today accused the Maharashtra government of having a "negative approach" to the ongoing 10-day farmers' protest and said the stir would intensify from June 5. There has been no response from the government…
CPM's All India Kisan Sabha general secretary Hannan Mollah said: "Ministers have a track record of calling names such as anarchist, riotous and son, whenever peasnts agitate. That is the practice of ruling parties. We have been fighting for farmers,…
The farmers' strike in major states of the country entered the second day today. Farmers of Uttar Pradesh, West Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra are said to be on a strike. In some of these states, farmers have…