Hyderabad - Hunger Protest - 19 Nov 2006
- Telengana Jana Parishad -
Please participate in the campaign, and show solidarity with the farmers against an
indifferent central Congress government - Contact : Mr. Kesavrao Jadhav, Desini
Chinamallaiah, President, Telangana Rythanga Samithi, P. Janardhan Reddy, Ex. MLA,
Kamalpur
Nagpur - District Collector office -
Day long dharna - Vidarbha Vikas Parishad - Please participate in the campaign, and
show solidarity with the farmers against an indifferent central Congress government -
Contact : Vijay Jawandhia, Shetkari Sanghatana Paik, Ramnagar, Wardha. 0091-7152-240590
Kolkata - Mahatma Gandhi Statue - 22 Nov - 5.00 pm
Mahatma Gandhi statue - Kolkata. Please participate in the campaign, and show solidarity
with the farmers against an indifferent central Congress government. - Contact :
Satyakit Das - 09433048187
Gorakhpur - Chetana Tiraha - 22 Nov 2006 -
Time : 5.30 pm -
Candlelight vigil at Patel
Statue, HazratGanj - Lucknow. Please participate in the campaign, and show solidarity
with the farmers against an indifferent central Congress government
Contact : MANOJ SINGH - 9415282206, Narendra Mishra 9336407703
Lucknow - Patel Statue, HazratGanj - 23 Nov 2006, Time : 5.30 pm
Candlelight vigil at Patel Statue, HazratGanj - Lucknow. Please participate in the
campaign, and show solidarity with the farmers against an indifferent central Congress
government
Thiruvanthapuram - Statue Junction - 21 Nov - 6.30 pm
Statue Junction - Thiruvanthapuram - 21 Nov 2006, Time : 6.30 pm - Candlelight vigil at
Statue Junction, Thiruvanthapuram. Please participate in the campaign, and show
solidarity with the farmers against an indifferent central Congress government.
New Delhi - Jantar Mantar - 16 Nov - 7.30 pm
Jantar Mantar - New Delhi - 16 Nov 2006, Time : 7.30 pm - Candlelight vigil at Jantar
Mantar, New Delhi. Please participate in the campaign, and show solidarity with the
farmers against an indifferent central Congress government
Vigils Info - If you are planning a candlelight vigil in your area and wish to send us the details of the vigil supporting the Campaign on Farm Debt, please email : info@foodpolicy.in with City or Town or Village Name, Venue, Date, Time details, name of organizers and contact information
Farm Debt - Central government should write-off the outstanding dues of farmers owning less than 5 acres of irrigated land, and for those farmers who own 20 acres of non-irrigated lands
In support and to declare solidarity to :
Sri Mohan Dharia, Freedom Fighter and Former Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
who is on a hunger strike at Pune, Demanding Relief to the Debt-ridden farmers in
ndia Eighty two year old Freedom Fighter, Cooperative Movement Leader and Environmentalist Sri
Mohan Dharia is on a hunger strike since 14th of November 2006, demanding immediate government
attention to the continuing disaster in the farming sector in the country - the Farmers
Suicides.
The crisis in the agrarian sector, triggered by the anti-farmer policies of government
is driving the farmers to increasing debt and suicide. Official statistics put the total
suicides in a decade to 1.5 lakhs.
Farmers across the country has been asking the Dr Manmohan Singh Government and Sri Sharad
Pawar´s Ministry of Agriculture to take effective steps to address the agrarian situation and
stop farmers from suiciding. The packages that the Government has offered in the Vidharbha
region and for the other states including for Wyanad and Palakkad in Kerala has not done
anything to redeem the situation. Added to this, the Government is going ahead with policies
that will further fuel the crisis, all in the name of helping the corporate and MNC-driven
industrial growth to prosper.
The big question remains - Why is this behaviour continuing ? Why is the PM and CM silent over
the hundreds dying every week ? Would the Government have done the same if a few corporates or
even if a few officials in the governments or any other organised sector is forced to such
extents? This Candle Light Vigil is organised to support Sri Mohan Dharia in his mission to
get the farmers debt relief.
SAVE THE LIFE OF MOHAN DHARIA
SAVE THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF FARMERS AND FAMILIES
SAVE THE HANDS THAT FEED US