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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | On Friday, farmers groups from across India will march to Parliament. Here is how they mobilised in a year -Kunal Talgeri

On Friday, farmers groups from across India will march to Parliament. Here is how they mobilised in a year -Kunal Talgeri

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published Published on Nov 28, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 28, 2018
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* The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee mobilised a farmers’ movement in a year.

* The trigger was a June 2017 farmers’ agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, where six people died in the midst of violence and police shootings.

* In 12 months, the AIKSCC has managed to drive the convergence of farmer groups, including those representing marginalised farmers (women, adivasis and Dalits), apart from the introduction of two Bills.

“Farmer movements haven’t seen this kind of hope in decades,” says Kavitha Kuruganti, founder of advocacy-platform ASHA (Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture). She is referring to Dilli Chalo, a solidarity march for farmers on November 29 and 30, organised by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC).

The AIKSCC was formed in June 2017, and represents 208 farmers associations together from different parts of the country. In the past 18 months, the movement has gathered momentum in the shape of Kisan Mukti marches in various states, leading up to the march to Parliament in Delhi on November 30.

The trigger was a June 2017 farmers’ agitation in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh. Six people died in the midst of violence and police shootings. This was followed by spontaneous farmer agitations in Maharashtra and Rajasthan. “It made senior farmer leaders take note and say, we cannot let this upsurge wither away without any positive outcome. They felt a need for a united platform at least on the points we agree on,” Kuruganti says.

It is a movement that has grown nationally in no small measure because of social media, Kuruganti says. “Farmer movements had weakened after the 1980s,” she explains. “They had become localised with numerous factions emerging even in large farmer organisations.”

The AIKSCC’s working group comprises the likes of her, P Ayyakkanu of the National-South India River Interlinking Agriculturists Association, and Yogendra Yadav of Swaraj Abhiyan. Its primary call to the central government is for a special Parliamentary session with agriculture on the agenda.

Raju Shetti, a Lok Sabha member of Parliament from Hatkanangle in Maharashtra, introduced two Bills (both private member’s bill) in July. The first pertains to farmers’ right to a guaranteed minimum support price (MSP) for agricultural produce, while the second Bill is towards a debt waiver for farmers. Private member bills rarely see the light of day. But this is agriculture—India’s primary sector—in an election year.

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