UPDATE: To avoid inconvenience to Mumbaiites, farmers walk overnight
March 12, 2018  09:07
To avoid inconvenience to Mumbaiites, including SSC students attending exams today, protesting farmers walked overnight to reach Azad Maidan. 
 
Initially, the plan was to camp at the Somaiya Ground in Sion on Sunday night and start walking towards Maharashtra assembly on Monday morning. 

But the state government came up with a last-minute plan in view of Class 10 board exam in the city on Monday.

Instead of resting after a long day of continuous walking, the organisers and farmers took the difficult decision to continue walking well past midnight and make the 5-hour journey on foot to Azad Maidan, a large ground designated for protests in South Mumbai, about 15 km away from Sion.
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