Thousands of farmers converge in Delhi for Kisan March

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Thousands of farmers entered the capital city from five different routes to participate in the ‘Kisan Mukti March’ under the banner of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC). Committee officials said more than 200 farmers’ organisations from different parts of the country participate in the two-day agitation. Activists and leaders including Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and Raju Shetti will address the agitating farmers. Yadav, president of Swaraj India party and one of the working group members of AIKSCC, said the main demand of the farmers was to pass two bills — Freedom from Debt Bill, which will provide immediate crop loan waiver to indebted farmers, and the Farmers Right to Guaranteed Remunerative Minimum Support Price for Agricultural Commodities Bill 2018. There ar