Highlighting the plight of the farming community, more than 50,000 farmers and villagers of Palghar district gathered at Dahanu and took out a rally to protest against the forceful land acquisition for various projects, mainly Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor (MAHSRC).…
All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Thane-Palghar District Council Dahanu, 3rd May 2018 As you know, the AIKS had organised a historic Kisan Long March from March 6 to 12 on the burning issues of farmers. Over 50,000 farmers from all…
Milk producing farmers are going to distribute milk free of cost at district and taluka centres for seven days from May 3, to protest the state's failure to intervene in falling milk procurement prices. Ajit Navale, farmer leader associated with…
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On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the highway to Mumbai captured national…
Farmers in election-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan as well as those in Punjab and Haryana will join their counterparts in Maharashtra to launch a strike from 1 June. The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ organization affiliated to the Communist…
In the hilly terrain at the northern tip of Western Ghats, bordering Maharashtra and Gujarat, lies Surgana, an erstwhile princely state ruled by tribal chieftains of the Mahadev Koli tribe. Surgana joined the instrument of accession to be part of…
Accusing the BJP-led Maharashtra government of not keeping the promises it had made to farmers last month, the Left-affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) today announced to organise another protest march on June 1. The AIKS had led the Long…
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has threatened to conduct a statewide farmers’ march on June 1, similar to the one it had held in February, to protest against the government’s “indifference” towards the promises made to farmers. More than…
The Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, a farmers’ organization affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, will launch yet another protest on farm issues from 1 June to mark the first anniversary of the Maharashtra farmer protests. The…