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What made farmers and tribal groups come to Delhi to protest?
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On 5th of September thousands of farmers, tribal groups and agriculturists from the whole country came to the capital of the country for protest. The protest was about farmers who need better minimum wages and execution of laws like forest rights act 2006. Their demands were having a correct price for farm produce and loan waivers, a minimum wage till rs. 18,000 per month along with the implementation of labor laws to the forest rights act 2006. The protest was planned by All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), the Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) and the All-India Agricultural Workers’ Union (AIAWU), affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
AIKS’s General Secretary Hannan Mollah said that there were about 200,000 people in the protest and also added that “Implementation of FRA is one of our major demands. It has been 10 years since the law was passed but it has not been implemented properly so far. Under this Act, tribals were to be given the rights over their land but in the majority of the cases, their claims are rejected. They are asked for all kind of documents but how is a tribal person expected to produce 75-year-old documents.”
There was a lenient concern paid on rights of tribal communities over the forests which eventually resulted in combat between central governments and environment ministry and tribal affairs. The protest is expected to scheduled ahead next general elections till may 2019, as marchers stressed that deployment at this scale was threatening to the government.
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