Farmers have embarked on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the "betrayal" of peasants by the BJP governments at the state and centre.
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The farmers' long march from Nashik to Mumbai will continue after their leaders' late night parleys with Maharashtra government to address their demands remained inconclusive, the march organisers said on Thursday.
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Farmers have embarked on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the "betrayal" of peasants by the BJP governments at the state and centre. The Kisan Long March-2, expected to take over nine days to complete, is being organised by the CPI(M)-backed All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS).
The march could not be taken out Wednesday as police stopped many farmers from reaching Nashik, the AIKS claimed. Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan met some AIKS representatives in Nashik on Wednesday night. "We held talks with the minister for over three hours. The government appeared positive to 80 per cent of our demands. The minister said he would speak to Chief Minister
Devendra Fadnavis first," AIKS president Ashok Dhawale said.
Dhawale said Mahajan informed AIKS representatives that the assurances would be given in writing. "The AIKS has decided to go ahead with the march beginning on Thursday morning till the government does so," he added. Dhawale said police were also present during the meeting with Mahajan. They (police) are not going to stop the farmers now, he added.
Mahajan could not be reached for his comment. The AIKS has accused the government of not fulfilling assurances given to farmers last year after they marched between the two cities, seeking farm loan waiver, minimum support price for crops, irrigation facilities and provision of a pension to agriculturists.
The AIKS also said it is opposed to the multi-billion dollar Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project which has seen several farmers along the proposed route approach court against land acquisition.
Twitterati also shared pictures from the march.
#BJPBetraysKisans #kisanmarchesagain
— Basab Basak (@basak_basab) February 20, 2019
BJP govts both in Delhi & in Maharashtra though failed to d fervor & enthusiasm of d farmers, tried hard to stop d historic kisan long march-2 as d govts r not in a mood to allow the peasants to set d real agenda for d people of our country. pic.twitter.com/sudamtk56h
#Secular India*#Brand West Bengal*#KisanMarchesAgain
— SUNDAR DUTTA (@SUNDARmyth) February 20, 2019
While at border,Jawans r combating enemies from outside,in their parental homes,the Kisans,who feed the nation,r facing enemies within for whom Kisan's life-livelihood is in peril.From Nasik to Mumbai,Kisan March starts,today. pic.twitter.com/zR9OKG4IiY
Start kisan long march 150 k. M. From, Nasik to mumbai for won demand. Red salute âu00c2u009cu00c2u008aâu00c2u009cu00c2u008aâu00c2u009cu00c2u008a pic.twitter.com/T4hRDfG5Sc
— Basudas Sahu (@SahuBasudas) February 20, 2019
The #KisanLongMarch has started From #Nashik #REPRESSION_ON_ACTIVISTS_CANNOT_STOP_KISAN_LONG_MARCH. In order to stop the #AIKSsecondKisanMarch against the betrayal of farmers by the #BJP's central & state govt, the govt has taken recourse to repression.#Revalutionary_greeting pic.twitter.com/tWIyKKj1Q3
— V. Sivankutty (@sivankutty_v) February 20, 2019
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