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Farmers stage protest at BKC
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Raju Shetti urges people to support ongoing agitation against farm laws at Delhi border
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Raju Shetti urges people to support ongoing agitation against farm laws at Delhi border
As farmers from across Maharashtra started travelling to Delhi to join the ongoing agitation against three new farm laws, farmer organisations on Tuesday staged a protest outside the office of Reliance Industries at Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai.
The demonstrators were led by farmer leader Raju Shetti of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, Maharashtra’s Minister of State and Prahar Sanghatana leader Bachchu Kadu, and Left parties.
Maharashtra: Govt plans stricter mechanism at APMCs to ensure MSP to farmers
The Congress and NCP, which wield sizeable clout in the APMCs, fear taking an extreme step like making violation of MSP a criminal offence would invite backlash. Another aspect they believe is, agriculture sector cannot function within a fixed framework. December 20, 2020 1:58:00 am
The annual turnover in state APMCs is estimated at Rs 50,000 crore. (Representational)
THE STATE government is under pressure from various farmer organisations to put in place a mechanism to ensure stricter implementation of MSP for crops at Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs).
The state cabinet sub-committee led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar formed to study the new farm laws is considering ways to minimise exploitation of farmers at APMCs on MSP. A policy framework to make MSP mandatory is being worked out. Highly placed sources said, “At this moment, it’s evident that
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They will join anti-farm laws protest at Rajasthan-Haryana border
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Plan of action: AIKS leaders addressing a press conference in Nashik on Friday.
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They will join anti-farm laws protest at Rajasthan-Haryana border
Cranking up pressure on the Centre to repeal the contentious farm laws, the Left-affiliated All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) one of the outfits spearheading the agitation in Maharashtra on Friday said that thousands of farmers across the State would be travelling to Delhi to join the ongoing farmers’ protest.
“Thousands of farmers from over 20 districts of Maharashtra will gather at Nashik on December 21 and start a ‘vehicle march’ to hit Delhi to strengthen the struggle and to show solidarity to lakhs of farmers camping around the national national for the last three weeks,” AIKS’s national president Ashok Dhawale said.
‘We will take morcha to the Reliance office in Mumbai’
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Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana declares state protests in solidarity with the farmers agitating in the north
Amid the wave of ongoing farmers’ protests against new government laws, the state’s Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana and other groups have also decided to launch a supporting agitation in Maharashtra. Along with statewide protests outside government offices, a march is also going to be taken out in Mumbai to the Ambani estate in Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).
The move comes after Sanghatana leader
Raju Shetti (in pic) visited farmers in Delhi to take part in the protest. Along with his group, others like the Prahar Sanghatana, Shetkari Kamgar Paksh, Lok Sangharsha Morcha and others have joined hands. Their rally will reach Mumbai on December 22.