{"id":309660,"date":"2019-02-21T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309660"},"modified":"2019-02-21T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:53:51","slug":"maharashtra-thousands-of-farmers-begin-protest-march-from-nashik-to-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-thousands-of-farmers-begin-protest-march-from-nashik-to-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Thousands of farmers begin protest march from Nashik to Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309661 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/farmers-protest-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/farmers-protest-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/farmers-protest-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/farmers-protest-696x335.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/farmers-protest.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of farmers have embarked on a eight-day protest march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to press for 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;\">The farmers\u2019 demands include a complete loan waiver, immediate relief in view of the drought-like situation, land rights, minimum support price for crops, better water resources among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) claimed the Maharashtra government led by Devendra Fadnavis has not fulfilled its promises to farmers after the protest march in March 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The march organisers today said that the decision to continue the march was taken on Wednesday night. The 180-km protest march to Mumbai is being organised by the CPI(M)-backed AIKS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The march could not be taken out on Wednesday as police stopped many farmers from reaching Nashik, the AIKS said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ashok Dhawale, president of AIKS, said the organisation had held two meetings with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Girish Mahajan earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first meeting was on February 11 and the second meeting was held on February 17, where after three hours there was no progress,\u201d Dhawale said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe decision to hold a second-Long March was taken after talks failed,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The farmers aim to arrive in Mumbai on February 27, when the state Assembly\u2019s Budget session will be under way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of farmers have embarked on a eight-day protest march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to press for their demands. The farmers\u2019 demands include a complete loan waiver, immediate relief in view of the drought-like situation, land rights, minimum support price for crops, better water resources among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[10910,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309660"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309662,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309660\/revisions\/309662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}