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                 Farmers have not been
                 able to recover even
                 the input costs


                  he demonstrations by farmers in different   on September 5 by the three organisations- Centre
                  parts of India and in the national capital in   for Indian Trade Unions, All India Kisan Sabha and
                  the recent past and proposed protest on No-  All India Agriculture Workers’ Union, and Mumbai
           T vember 30 are indicative of an uprising. A se-   March by thousands of farmers of Maharashtra.
           ries of protests by the communities under threat are   All India Kisan Coordination Sangharsh Commit-
           a caveat by the food producers who face oppression   tee, an umbrella organisation of over 200 farmers’
           in everyday life. Indian farmer with small landhold-  union organised Kisan Mukti Sansad in Novem-
           ing is in jeopardy. Having nothing to lose, he is now   ber last year in the Parliament Street. The central
           geared up to hit the streets more often and resort to   issues were the denial of remunerative prices to
           massive agitations led by farmers’ organisations.  farmers and piling farm debts pushing them into
             Thousands of farmers thronged the border of the   suicides. Two Bills — Farmers’ Freedom from In-
           country’s capital, New Delhi, on October 2 under   debtedness Bill and Farmers’ right to guaranteed
           the banner of Bhartiya Kisan Union to raise their   remunerative minimum support price for agri-
           demands. This massive protest was one of the latest   culture produce — were presented in the Kisan
           after a similar protest staged at Parliament Street   Mukti Sansad. This ended by declaring a plan for a



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