MUMBAI: Over 35,000 farmers are marching demanding implementations of Forest Right Act 2008, Dr Swaminathan commission report for fair prices and complete loan waiver among others.
Over 35,000 group of farmers from the All India Kisan Sabha are demanding proper implementation of the Maharashtra government’s loan waiver scheme, among a list of other demands that they claim are long-overdue.
The march led by All India Kisan Sabha (farmer wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist)) has received support from Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as well.
The farmers are set to enter Mumbai at 10 am through the Anandnagar toll plaza in Mulund before reaching Somaiyya ground in Sion via Vikhroli, Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar, Chheda Nagar and Suman Nagar.
On Saturday, the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) parties also extended their support to the farmers’ march.
Shiv Sena leader and son of party chief Udhdhav Thackeray, Aditya Thackeray today met the farmers of All India Kisan Sabha and interacted with them.
While the Devendra Fadnavis government claims it has delivered on its loan waiver promise and is doing more than what previous governments did for agriculture.
Maharashtra’s farm woes that are pushing farmers’ distress are structural and they need more than band-aids.These were the years of a high incidence of the farmers’ suicides, particularly in its dry and arid regions.78% of the state’s 13.7 million farmers are small and marginal.
