All India Kisan Sabha national president Ashok Dhawale and NCP MLC Vidya Chavan met Congress state president and former speaker of the state assembly Nana Patole, NCP state president and minister Jayant Patil, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and minister Jitendra Avhad on Monday, and appealed to the parties to lend support to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s call for a Bharat Bandh on September 27.

Later in the evening, a state-level meeting of the leaders of “all anti-BJP parties” and organisations of farmers, agricultural labourers, organised and unorganised workers, employees, women, youth, students, teachers and other sections, and eminent individuals from different fields, was held at the Bhupesh Gupta Bhawan in Prabhadevi. More than 200 leaders from nearly 100 organisations took part in it.