CM Fadnavis to meet 20-member delegation of farmers at noon

March 12, 2018 11:46

Professor Ajit Navale, CPI (M) leader of the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com said Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis had agreed to meet a delegation of around 20 farmers at around noon today. "We will not be fooled like we were last year. We need a written assurance. There are policemen everywhere, all around Azad Maidan and at CST too. If the government does not meet our demands we will not leave. We will sit right here (at Azad Maidan). We will gherao the Assembly, have a sit-in agitation here and finally go on a hunger strike.
Navale was a member of the committee that had led the farmers' agitation last year.

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