NEW DELHI: After the "successful long march" of farmers in Maharashtra, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) is now planning to hold a similar rally in the national capital to demand a special session of Parliament to discuss agrarian crisis.
In a meeting of the central office-bearers of the AIKS in Delhi today, the farmers’ organisation said such a move was necessary to make the government aware of the plights of the cultivators.
"A meeting of the central office-bearers of the AIKS held today in Delhi decided to support the idea of a long march of the dispossessed to Delhi to demand a special session of Parliament called entirely to discuss the serious agrarian crisis in the country," AIKS general secretary Hannan Mollah told PTI.
The farmer organisation said the date of the long march would be finalized after wider consultation with other organisations and individuals. It could be held anytime after September 5, when the AIKS will hold a farmers’ rally.
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