Upset with the state government’s failure to keep promises, farmers across the state will hold a “jail bharo” protest on May 14, the birth anniversary of Sambhaji Maharaj. A farmers’ committee said that farmers in every district will support the…
After the massive farmer’s agitation in March, another protest is slated to take place on May 14 when lakhs of farmers will undertake a ‘Jail Bharo andolan’ to protest against the state government. Approximately 25 farmer organisations, who have now…
Farmers in Maharashtra will court arrests on May 14 to protest the state government's "failure" to keep various welfare assurances it had given to them earlier. Leaders of farmers and various political fronts said they are planning the 'Jail Bharo'…
On May 3, 2018, around 35,000 Adivasi peasant women and men, under the banner of the CPI(M) and the AIKS, held a massive rally at Dahanu in Palghar district. They came in their thousands from all the seven tehsils of…
Farmer organisations in Maharashtra have called a ‘jail bharo’ andolan (agitation) on May 14, the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, across the state, demanding a complete waiver of loan and electricity bills, scrapping of the Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway and refinery…
For someone from a family of doctors, grass-roots activism for peasants was once a world away for Ashok Dhawale, president of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) which spearheaded the Kisan Long March in Maharashtra this year. But it was…
4 years of NDA Government; Expose and Protest! 23 May 2018- Protest Action and mobilisation at State Capitals Nationwide Campaign on 16-22 May 2018 The four years’ rule of Modi led NDA government which came to power with a promise…
Upset by loss of livelihoods, unfulfilled promises Mumbai: The 1.5 kilometres from Sagar Naka to Paar Naka in Dahanu was a river of red on Thursday. More than 50,000 farmers from over 60 villages in the Thane-Palghar district in red…
Tribal Adivasi farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu, backed by the Left affiliated All India Kisan Sabha, protested against land acquisition for the bullet train project and the Mumbai-Vadodara super highway alleging that they are being forced to give up their land…