Farmers' march to Mumbai will continue as talks inconclusive

The farmers long march from Nashik to Mumbai will continue after their leaders late night parleys with Maharashtra government to address their demands remained inconclusive the march organisers said on ThursdayFarmers have embarked on a 180km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the betrayal of peasants by the BJP governments at the state and centre The Kisan Long March2 expected to take over nine days to complete is being organised by the CPIMbacked All India Kisan Sabha AIKSThe march could not be taken out Wednesday as police stopped many farmers from reaching Nashik the AIKS claimed Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan met some AIKS representatives in Nashik on Wednesday night We held talks with the minister for over three hours The government appeared positive to 80 per cent of our demands The minister said he would speak to Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis first AIKS president Ashok Dhawale saidDhawale said Mahajan informed AIKS representatives that the assurances would be given in writing The AIKS has decided to go ahead with the march beginning on Thursday morning till the government does so he added Dhawale said police were also present during the meeting with Mahajan They police are not going to stop the farmers now he addedMahajan could not be reached for his comment The AIKS has accused the government of not fulfilling assurances given to farmers last year after they marched between the two cities seeking farm loan waiver minimum support price for crops irrigation facilities and provision of a pension to agriculturistsThe AIKS also said it is opposed to the multibillion dollar MumbaiAhmedabad bullet train project which has seen several farmers along the proposed route approach court against land acquisitionTwitterati also shared pictures from the marchBJPBetraysKisans kisanmarchesagain BJP govts both in Delhi amp in Maharashtra though failed to d fervor amp enthusiasm of d farmers tried hard to stop d historic kisan long march2 as d govts r not in a mood to allow the peasants to set d real agenda for d people of our country pictwittercomsudamtk56hmdash Basab Basak basak_basab February 20 2019Secular IndiaBrand West BengalKisanMarchesAgainWhile at borderJawans r combating enemies from outsidein their parental homesthe Kisanswho feed the nationr facing enemies within for whom Kisans lifelivelihood is in perilFrom Nasik to MumbaiKisan March startstoday pictwittercomzR9OKG4IiYmdash SUNDAR DUTTA SUNDARmyth February 20 2019Start kisan long march 150 k M From Nasik to mumbai for won demand Red salute acircu00c2u009cu00c2u008aacircu00c2u009cu00c2u008aacircu00c2u009cu00c2u008a pictwittercomT4hRDfG5Scmdash Basudas Sahu SahuBasudas February 20 2019The KisanLongMarch has started From Nashik REPRESSION_ON_ACTIVISTS_CANNOT_STOP_KISAN_LONG_MARCH In order to stop the AIKSsecondKisanMarch against the betrayal of farmers by the BJPs central amp state govt the govt has taken recourse to repressionRevalutionary_greeting pictwittercomtWIyKKj1Q3mdash V Sivankutty sivankutty_v February 20 2019Catch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever