Farmer protest to hit Delhi today

Farmers from across the country will gather in thousands in New Delhi on Monday for a Kisan Sansad, or farmers' parliament. As many as 180 big and small farmers' organisations of all political and non-political hues have come together to form the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee.


The farmers would walk from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament Street and hold a meeting there to highlight farm distress and farmer suicides. The AIKSCC has put forth two chief demands with the Centre '" 50 per cent profit margin over the cost of production and implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendations. There are seven prominent leaders of the movement, who are: Hannan Mollah, Raju Shetti, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Amra Ram Sunilam,
Avik Saha and Kiran Kumar Vissa. 

-- Archis Mohan & Sanjeeb Mukherjee/Business Standard

File pic of Tamil Nadu farmers' protests last year.