March 12 Farmers to march to Vidhan Bhavan MAIN DEMANDS Complete farm loan waiver; remunerative prices for crops; implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations; transfer of forest land to those who have been tilling it for years, among others The route…
The massive farmers' march in Maharashtra that started out from Nashik on Tuesday, finally reached Mumbai on Saturday as thousands of protesters camped outside the octroi naka yard near Mulund toll naka. The crowd, whose numbers swell to 35,000, slowly…
Demanding complete loan waiver and implementation of recommendations of Dr Swaminathan Commission among other issues, hundreds of protesting farmers on Saturday entered Thane district. The farmers plan to encircle the Vidhan Bhavan on Monday, however, they are likely to be…
At a ground located off the Mumbai-Nashik highway in Sonale near Bhiwandi, the afternoon sun is unrelenting. However, just like the 30,000 farmers who have been walking with him from Nashik, Samadhan Gave (42), is undeterred. "My feet are…
Unmindful of the scorching heat, nearly 12,000 farmers walked 180km over more than four days and landed at Mumbai’s doorstep, Thane, on Saturday evening. On Sunday, they plan to march into Mumbai, where an equal number of farmers is expected…
On a sweltering Friday afternoon, over 25,000 protesters spilled on to Mumbai-Nashik Highway near Shahapur in Thane district, bringing vehicular traffic to a grinding halt. The protesters, all members of the CPI-M's All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) — the country's…
Clad in soiled white shirt, dhoti and a tulsi mala around his neck, Chandar Shivram Pendhar, 65, stands out from the crowd. While his fellow farmers sport red caps to beat the scorching sun, Pendhar has a white Gandhi topi.…
The 180-km protest march, christened the ‘Long March of Farmers’, steered by the Maharashtra unit of the CPM’s farmers’ wing, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), is the latest in a string of farmers’ protests Maharashtra has seen in a…
About 30,000 farmers in India's western state of Maharashtra are currently on a protest march to demand loan waiver, implementation of government commissions report on farmers and compensation for crop damage. Led by farmer's outfit Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sabha (All…
The march comes on the heels of a rise in farmers' suicides in the South Asian country. Nearly 35,000 farmers in India continued Sunday their 180-km long march in the southwestern state of Maharashtra demanding agrarian reform from the government of right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party, BJP. The…