New Delhi: The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), a Left-backed farmers’ group, will stage a dharna at the Jantar Mantar from January 30, along with the All India Ex-Servicemen Association and the Young Indians Organisation will hold the dharna from January 30 to February 7.
The aim of the protest is to highlight real issues ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“The issues of farmers, workers, Dalits, youth, women, minorities, tribals and thus the common people of the society, those who make the country, are conveniently ignored in the whole political rhetoric currently going on in the country,” the statement issued by AIKS said.
In November last year, the AIKS had led a farmers’ rally in the national capital, during which thousands of farmers from across the country had reached Parliament Street in the heart of the city, demanding higher crop prices and farm loan waiver.
(With PTI inputs)
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