More than 5,000 farmers have re-started a march in Mumbai's direction, calling for the rights to forest land and answers to other problems affecting farmers. The Monday-starting walk is expected to get close to Mumbai on Friday night.
Farmers have organized such marches toward the nation's financial center before. When they staged a similar march five years prior, the administration promised to meet their objectives. Only a few demands, though, were granted.
Farmers from Ahmednagar, Dhule, and Palghar joined the ongoing march under the banner of the All-India Kisan Sabha after it began in Nashik. Ajit Navale, the general secretary of the sabha, is one of the march's prominent figures. He claimed that while some of their demands had been fulfilled in 2018, there was still more to be done.
The government was forced to create a program for farm debt exemptions as a result of the difficult march five years ago. However, there are a number of additional difficulties facing farmers that are still unresolved. Onion farmers would receive a relief payment of Rs 300 per quintal.
At the same time that the Assembly session is taking place, these farmers are moving toward Mumbai. The Shinde-Fadnavis administration is attempting to tackle this problem through communication. On Tuesday, a meeting with representatives of farmers was scheduled, but it was postponed because farmers declined to attend, arguing that the government should attend the march and speak with them.
The farmers will be met and their grievances will be discussed by Maharashtra ministers Dada Bhuse and Atul Save.
Meanwhile, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray criticized the administration over the farmers' march. "It's regrettable. Annadata is travelling very far. The government needs to visit them. They had to comprehend their issues, "said he.
