Thousands of farmers march to parliament to demand loan waiver and better rumuneration for their produce

Thousands of farmers from various states of the country have entered Delhi and are likely to gherao the parliament today demanding a special session of parliament to discuss and resolve farmers issue in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament.

The farmers march covering several hundred kilometres from different states of the country under the banner of All India Farmers Cordination Committee have two demands in particular pertaining to passing of two legislations viz. freeing farmers of the country from the entire loans and benfitting the farmers by way of giving them one and a half times more of the value of their produce of the costs invloved in the inputs..The farmers should get the appropriate beneficial rates against their produce.

Raising anti government, Vande Matram and pro peasent slogans wearing different colourful attires representing their respective cultural heritage, thousands of protesting farmers are marching towards the parliament house from Bijwasan after covering over 27 kilometres raising slogans.

The farmers reached Ram Leela Grounds last evening. Prominent social activist and the leader of Narmada Bachao Andolan Megha Patkar also joined the march in between today.

The kisans who’d marched from Tamilnadu carried with them the skeletons and skull of the farmers who’d committed suicide in their state and had warned the police not to interfere in their protest march.

These peasents from Tamilnadu and other southern states had several months ago held dharnas and protest demonstrations at Jantar Mantar last year for two months as well and have threatened to protest as naked protestors if they are not allowed to demonstrate peacefully.

About two thousand police men had been deployed to maintain law and order and about 1796 police officers deputed to ensure that no untoward incident occurs during this protest demonstration.

The Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav and eminent RTI activist and lawyer Prashant Bhushan have also joined the farmers march and extended their fullest support to the Joint action committee of All India Farmers.

All the left parties are also supporting this movement . The farmers march is likely to converge at Jantar Mantar where they will be addressed by their leaders and memorandum handed to the prime minister. About more than two hundred peasents organisations from all over the country are participating in this massive protest demonstration under the banner of Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sangharsh Samanvay Samittee.