Mumbai:

An sudden spell of rain in Maharashtra’s Vasind has enforced some much-needed relaxation to the footsore farmers marching to Mumbai to flag their calls for. The draw back — few will get any sleep tonight. The bottom, the place they deliberate to crash, is moist and muddy.

Visuals from the roadside in Thane’s Vasind confirmed farmers taking cowl below plastic sheets rigged to automobiles and vehicles amid the heavy downpour.  

The onion farmers from Nashik began the 200-km trek to Mumbai to flag their calls for after a steep fall in costs. They’re demanding a direct monetary reduction of Rs 600 per quintal. There are different calls for: These from tribal communities need land rights and everybody desires uninterrupted energy provide for 12 hours and a waiver of agriculture loans.

On Day 5 of their trek at this time, many have been seen hobbling after their footwear gave out. Unable to search out any shoe shops on the freeway that snakes by miles and miles of farmland, they plodded on cracked and callused ft, decided not to surrender.

The march, organised by the CPM, has gained in power with the addition of many working within the unorganised sector and members of tribal communities.  

The ruling BJP-Sena authorities has taken discover. Earlier at this time, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis met a delegation of farmers and later mentioned the talks have been constructive.  

“There might be a press release on this within the Legislature (on Friday),” Mr Shinde advised reporters.

Final night time, the federal government had rushed ministers Dada Bhuse and Atul Save to carry a dialogue with the farmers after they Thane district, subsequent door to state capital Mumbai.