Joint Farmers' Convention at Sangamner, Ahmednagar demands complete loan waiver & implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendation

On 13 July, 2017 the large Joint Farmers' Convention of Ahmednagar district at Sangamner demanded complete peasant loan waiver and implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendation about remunerative prices, along with other demands. The main speakers were- Raghunathdada Patil, Bachhu Kadu MLA, Dr Ashok Dhawale, Dr Ajit Nawale, Namdev Gavde, Sushila Morale, Sanjay Patil, Karan Gaikar, Ganesh Jagtap and others. This is the fourth successful convention of thousands of farmers each in Maharashtra after Nashik (July 10), Vikramgad in Thane-Palghar district (July 11) and Kalwan (July 12) in the last three days. This campaign will continue with one convention each in the major districts of the state till July 23, after which a further call for state-wide struggle will be given by the coordination committee of farmers' organisations. The Maharashtra AIKS has urgently published a booklet giving the fifth and final report of the Swaminathan Commission and it is being sold very well in all the joint peasant conventions.