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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Over One Lakh Farmers and Workers Are Marching in Delhi. Here's Why. -Kabir Agarwal

Over One Lakh Farmers and Workers Are Marching in Delhi. Here's Why. -Kabir Agarwal

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published Published on Sep 5, 2018   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2018
-TheWire.in

Organised by the All India Kisan Sabha, the farmers' and workers' demands range from an upward revision of minimum wages to remunerative prices for peasants.

New Delhi:
On August 29, Vijoo Krishnan, joint secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), was nervous. He reached the Ramlila Maidan in the evening and found it almost entirely submerged under water due to consistent rainfall and poor drainage mechanisms. “I thought to myself, how are we going to deal with this?” Krishnan told The Wire.

More than one lakh farmers and workers from across the country, according to the AIKS, were to start coming into Delhi on September 2 and Ramlila Maidan was where the AIKS had planned to put them up. The volunteers got to work and managed to clear a part of the ground, where they installed wooden boards, covered them with yellow plastic sheets and put tents over them.

“We could only manage to ready about 40% of the ground. So then we arranged for some people to stay in gurdwaras, others in a camp in Sahibabad and some in guest houses,” Krishnan said.

On the eve of the workers’ and farmers’ march to parliament, around 30,000 people were inside the Ramlila Maidan, getting ready. It was another rainy day in Delhi. Large tents with wooden boards and plastic sheets being used to shield against the water worked as accommodation for the peasants and workers who had travelled for the protest.

Workers and farmers from 23 states have arrived in Delhi with demands ranging from an upward revision of minimum wages to remunerative prices for peasants. Around 5,000 have travelled from Nasik, many of whom were part of the Kisan long march from Nasik to Mumbai in March this year. A group has travelled from Pallakad in Kerala on motorcycles. Another group from Manipur has travelled despite being threatened by the local police and told not to do so.

“In all, close to two lakh people will be marching to parliament in the morning,” Krishnan said.

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TheWire.in, 5 September, 2018, https://thewire.in/labour/farmers-workers-march-delhi-protest


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