camped in Thane

Mumbai. Thousands of farmers marching to Mumbai for their demands entered Thane district on Wednesday. Thousands of farmers are participating in this protest being led by All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), who are walking in scorching heat while carrying banners, placards, posters and shouting slogans on the way. The protesters started their foot march on March 12 from Dindori town in Nashik district, about 200 km from Mumbai. The march crossed Kasara town in Thane district adjoining Mumbai and is likely to reach Mumbai on March 20.

Farmers are demanding immediate financial relief of Rs 600 per quintal to onion growers, 12 hours uninterrupted power supply and farm loan waiver. AIKS has released its charter of 17-point demands, including compensation for onion growers and an MSP of Rs 2000 per quintal from the next season, better prices for other crops like cotton, soyabean, arhar, green gram, milk and ASHA workers Issues related to.

Prices of kitchen staples have plummeted in Maharashtra, resulting in farmers getting very little for their produce. Nashik district is a major center of onion cultivation in the country.

Opposition asks Maharashtra government to resolve farmers’ issues
Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray asked Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis to go and meet the protesting farmers. Thackeray said, “It is sad that farmers have to do such a march in the first place. Farmers are the food providers of the country. Why can’t the government go there to meet and solve their demands.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader told how, when farmers had taken out a similar ‘long march’ in 2019, he had got his son Aaditya Thackeray and other senior leaders to meet the farmers, understand their problems and arrange for food and water Sent them to help.

Thackeray recalled how the country’s farmers had ensured that the country got food when the cases of coronavirus pandemic increased and now they should be helped during this crisis.

Nationalist Congress Party leader of opposition Ajit Pawar also called upon the state government to meet the agitating farmers and resolve their grievances.

Congress state president Nana Patole, NCP state president Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena UBT’s Bhaskar Jadhav and other leaders have demanded that the government should give between Rs 500 and Rs 700 per quintal to farmers who are facing distress due to falling prices.