'This morcha is like life and death for me'

Mon, 12 March 2018

17:53

"I broke my slippers, I stitched it, but again it broke. After that, I started walking barefoot. This morcha is like life and death for me. I did not give up hope and kept walking till we reached Mumbai."

Sanjay Namdeo Navsare, a farmer from Sakur taluka, Nanded, marched the 180-km from Nashik to Mumbai.

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