Shetkari Sanghatak

Summary

This eight-page issue of the Marathi fortnightly Shetkari Sanghatak (Year 11, Issue 16, 21 December 1994), the organ of Sharad Joshi’s Shetkari Sanghatana, is built around a land-rights agitation at Chikhli-Kudalwadi near Pune, where farmers’ land was being acquired by a development authority (Pimpri-Chinchwad / ‘Telco’ lands) at prices the movement deemed confiscatory. The lead article ‘जमीन आमची भाव आमचा’ (Our land, our price), signed by Sharad Joshi, develops the Sanghatana’s demand that landowning farmers — not the state or industry — decide the price of land, casting compulsory acquisition as the latest front of the movement’s wider fight for remunerative prices and market freedom. A page-five report welcomes a High Court ruling that frees non-member growers to sell sugarcane outside the ‘sugar barons” cooperative monopoly; page six reports the Chikhli sit-in (ठिय्या आंदोलन) and announces a related meeting; and page seven gathers datelined field correspondent reports of ‘रास्ता रोको’ (road-blockade) actions across Beed, Sangli/Walwa and Parbhani districts on 1 December 1994. The back page reprints the agitation call signed by Saroj Kashikar (Shetkari Mahila Aghadi) and Pasha Patel (Shetkari Sanghatana).

Essays

जमीन आमची भाव आमचा

By शरद जोशी

The lead article by Sharad Joshi, ‘जमीन आमची भाव आमचा’, argues that the farmer who owns the land must set its price, attacking the compulsory acquisition of farmland at Chikhli-Kudalwadi (for Pimpri-Chinchwad/Telco-area development) at rates the movement calls unjust and confiscatory. Joshi situates the land question within the Sanghatana’s long campaign against state and industrial domination of agricultural pricing, recounts the chronology of the agitation begun on 21 December 1994, and frames freedom over one’s land and its price as continuous with the movement’s demand for remunerative prices and open markets.

• Demands that landowning farmers, not the state or industry, decide land prices.
• Attacks compulsory acquisition at Chikhli-Kudalwadi for Pimpri-Chinchwad/Telco-area development as confiscatory.
• Frames the land fight as the latest front of the movement’s price-and-market-freedom campaign.
• Recounts the chronology of the sit-in agitation begun 21 December 1994.
• Signed by Sharad Joshi, the movement’s leader.

खंडपीठाच्या निर्णयाने ‘साखर सम्राटां’चे दावे दणाणले — बिगर सभासद उत्पादकांना ऊसविक्रीची पूर्ण मुभा

An unsigned report welcomes a High Court bench ruling that, it says, deflates the claims of the ‘sugar barons’: non-member cane growers are held free to sell their sugarcane outside the cooperative sugar factories’ monopoly. The piece reads the judgment as a vindication of the Sanghatana’s long-standing position that growers should not be bound to a single mill and should be able to sell in an open market.

• Reports a High Court ruling freeing non-member growers to sell cane outside cooperative mills.
• Frames it as a defeat for the cooperative ‘sugar barons” monopoly.
• Reads as vindication of the Sanghatana’s open-market stance on sugarcane.

रास्ता रोको १ डिसेंबर १९९४ (वार्ता संकलन)

Page seven compiles short, datelined correspondent reports of ‘रास्ता रोको’ (road-blockade) actions held on 1 December 1994 across Maharashtra — at Morewadi (Ambajogai) in Beed district, Peth Naka in Walwa taluka (Sangli), and Gunda in Parbhani district — listing local leaders, participant counts, and the spread of the agitation to some twenty places. The reports document the grassroots reach of the Sanghatana’s coordinated protest.

• Datelined field reports of road-blockade actions on 1 December 1994.
• Covers Beed (Morewadi/Ambajogai), Sangli (Walwa/Peth Naka), and Parbhani (Gunda) districts.
• Lists local leaders and notes the agitation reached about twenty places.

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