All India Kisan Sabha, Maharashtra: AIKS CONDEMNS POLICE FIRING & LATHI CHARGE ON SUGARCANE FARMERS IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

AIKS CONDEMNS POLICE FIRING & LATHI CHARGE ON SUGARCANE FARMERS IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA

November 15, 2017

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) condemns the police firing in the air and the brutal lathi charge on sugarcane farmers at Shevgaon in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra today.

Hundreds of sugarcane farmers were peacefully agitating for getting a price of Rs 3100 per tonne of sugarcane, when the attack by the police of the BJP-led state government took place. The farmers were severely lathi-charged and several rounds were fired in the air. At least seven farmers were badly injured in this attack.

The agitation by sugarcane farmers for remunerative price for their cane has been going on in several centres of Maharashtra for the last few weeks. The BJP-led state government was given enough time for negotiations to settle their demands. But it did nothing of the kind and instead, has let loose the police on the fighting peasants.

A delegation of the Maharashtra Rajya Kisan Sabha led by its General Secretary Dr Ajit Nawale will be visiting Shevgaon, the scene of the police attack, immediately.

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) demands that: 1. The state government must give immediate and adequate compensation to all the farmers injured in the police attack and must meet all their medical expenses, 2. The state government must take immediate steps to ensure that remunerative price at one and a half times the cost of production be given to farmers growing sugarcane and all other crops.

Hannan Mollah Dr Ashok Dhawale

General Secretary President

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All India Kisan Sabha (अखिल भारतीय किसान सभा; AIKS), is the largest national organisation representing peasants in India, with a membership of 2,25,81,308 (22.58 million). The AIKS, which was formed at its first conference on April 11, 1936 at Lucknow, has a glorious 75-year history. It played a stellar role in arousing the peasantry against British imperialism in the movement for national freedom. It was able to unite various sections of the peasantry in the struggle against feudalism, big traders and monopolists. The AIKS led historic peasant struggles in Telangana in Andhra Pradesh, Tebhaga in West Bengal, Punnapra-Vayalar and North Malabar in Kerala, Surma Valley in Assam and tribal movements in Tripura and Maharashtra.

In the period after independence, it has continued to organise peasants against the anti-peasant policies of the government. These policies have acquired a particularly disastrous nature during the last two decades of neo-liberalism, leading to suicides of over 2.5 lakh debt-ridden peasants in the last 15 years. The strong peasant movement built by the AIKS has contributed to the formation of the Left-led state governments in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura.

The AIKS believes that a powerful agrarian movement has to be built on alternative policies centred on the interests of the poor peasants and agricultural workers, both of whom constitute the overwhelming majority of the Indian peasantry. The AIKS is clear that only a thoroughgoing agrarian revolution can truly solve the deep and growing crisis in Indian agriculture.

Some of the towering peasant leaders of the AIKS have been Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, Muzaffar Ahmad, P Sundarayya, A K Gopalan, E M S Namboodiripad, M Basavapunnaiah, Hare Hrishna Konar, Benoy Krishna Choudhary, Dasharath Deb, M A Rasul, Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Godavari Parulekar and Krantisimha Nana Patil.

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