-Pratirodh.com Social activist and National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) leader Medha Patkar along with other activists demanded resignation of Union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar for his involvement in Lavasa scam. Here is the full statement: Corruption of one politician after another in nexus with the builders and corporations are getting exposed. The scandals which were already investigated and prosecution initiated also are to be re-viewed in the renewed context and taken to...
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Release foodgrains from godowns: Bhojan Yatra activists
-The Hindu On Tuesday, Bhojan Yatra, a campaign demanding a comprehensive food security bill, reached here after travelling through Bihar, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. In a rally, organised from Bistupur to Ram Mandir Maidan, Right to Food (RTF) activists demanded that the proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB) give universal access to food instead of capping it at 67 per cent of the population. They demanded that 8.2 crore metric tonnes of food...
More »MP CM walked five km with Jan Satyagraha landless tribals -Suchandana Gupta
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan travelled to Agra in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday to join the Ekta Parishad Jan Satyagraha protest march of more than 50,000 landless tribals demanding land reforms from the Union government. Chouhan, accompanied by his wife Sadhna and state minister for women and child development Ranjana Baghel, walked five km from Rohta village to COD Maidan in Agra to boost the morale...
More »Alleging assault by CRPF jawans, tribals stage protests -Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu Two separate incidents of alleged assault on village women by Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans have triggered a spate of protests in the adjoining districts of West and East Singhbhum. In both areas, villagers and tribal leaders have renewed their demand for removal of the CRPF camps. Senior CRPF and police officials said inquiries are on against the accused jawans, but termed the demands politically motivated. On September 24, Sumati...
More »The long march of PV Rajagopal-Ruchira Singh
-Live Mint He is at the head of a march to Delhi for a new policy that promises every poor family a small patch of land Morena (Madhya Pradesh): One hot Friday in October, a 64-year-old man named P.V. Rajagopal is marching at the head of a procession of around 50,000 people on the highway from Gwalior to Delhi. Rajagopal is slight and heavily sunburnt, and has walked tens of thousands of kilometres...
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