Hopeless Farmers To March To Delhi Demanding Special Parliament Session To Solve Their Problems

The anger among the agrarian community in India, which has been simmering for some time, is all set to take to an all new level next week as thousands of farmers are set to march in the national capital.

The framers from across the country, under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), an umbrella body of about 200 farmer organizations will converge at Delhi's Ramleela Maidan on November 29 from where they will march to the Parliament.

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“Farmers from across the country, except the poll-bound states and some states in the northeast, are expected to join the march,” Vijoo Krishnan, joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha said.

The Kisan Mukti March is aimed at pressing their demand to convene a special joint session of the Parliament to discuss the issues faced by farmers.

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Some of the demands that the farmers have put forward are the formation of a Kisan Mukti Bills to guarantee remunerative prices freedom from indebtedness. They will also release a "Farmers’ Charter" describing the vision and demands of the farmers’ movements.

Agriculture, the largest employment sector in India by a distance has for long complained about the hardships that they encounter on a daily basis, including rising costs, lack of manpower, financial support and proper price for their produce.

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In states like Maharashtra, which is yet to recover from the years of drought, farmers have failed to produce anything on their fields for years on a stretch, which pushed hundreds to suicides.

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The farmers' protests which have been happening across the country for many many years got a new strength earlier this year, after some 40, 000 farmers from across Maharashtra marched to Mumbai in what was called as the Kissena Long March.

Since then, a number of small and large farmers protests have taken place across India including a few of them in Delhi.