Indian Farmers March Against Govt’s Neoliberal Policies | News | teleSUR English
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Nearly 35,000 farmers in India continued Sunday their 180-km long march in the southwestern state of Maharashtra demanding agrarian reform from the government of right-wing Bhartiya Janta Party, BJP.
The farmers’ march is part of an ongoing series of the ’long march’ which began from the southwestern city of Nashik to Mumbai on Mar. 6, and after walking for nearly 140 hours, tens of thousands of peasants reached Mumbai late Sunday night.
The farmers are uniting and calling upon the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to implement pro-peasant reforms. Some of the important demands laid out by the farmers in the ongoing march include debt waivers, better pay, and implementation of the Swaminathan Committee Report.
Swaminathan Commission report is a 2004 National Commission on Farmers which was formed to address the farmers’ suicides. In recent years, due to lack of government accountability and agrarian reforms, thousands of low-income farmers have taken their lives to escape the debt.
