{"id":305952,"date":"2018-11-22T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305952"},"modified":"2018-11-22T08:35:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T08:35:37","slug":"mumbai-thousands-of-farmers-march-to-azad-maidan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-thousands-of-farmers-march-to-azad-maidan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai: Thousands of farmers march to Azad Maidan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-thousands-of-farmers-march-to-azad-maidan\/farmer-protest\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305953\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305953 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/farmer-protest-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmer-protest-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmer-protest-696x395.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmer-protest.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a>Thousands of farmers and tribals under Lok Sangharsh Morcha&#8217;s banner continued their march for the second day on Thursday towards Azad Maidan in Mumbai. The farmers are protesting against state government and have a charter of demands which include loan waiver and land ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Farmers from across Maharashtra, who began their march on Tuesday, reached Byculla Bridge in the city on Thursday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They are scheduled to meet Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis \u00a0to put forth their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Their demands include implementation of the Swaminathan Committee Report, transfer of forest rights to tribals under the Forest Rights Act (FRA), minimum support price and setting up of a judicial system to ensure its implementation, complete farm loan waiver and drought compensation of Rs 50,000 per acre for non-irrigated land and Rs 1 lakh per acre for irrigated land and other issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aam Aadmi Party in Maharashtra had extended its support to the farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is third mass protest by farmers in Maharashtra this year. Earlier in March, thousands of farmers under the banner of All India Kisan Sabha carried out a protest march to press for their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of farmers and tribals under Lok Sangharsh Morcha&#8217;s banner continued their march for the second day on Thursday towards Azad Maidan in Mumbai. The farmers are protesting against state government and have a charter of demands which include loan waiver and land ownership. Farmers from across Maharashtra, who began their march on Tuesday, reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[6829,9827,9826,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305955,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305952\/revisions\/305955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}