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9.30 am: Mahila Mahavidyalay, Nandanvan, Nagpur – outreach with students 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm: Rally in Wardha from Socialist Chowk to Magan Sangrahalay 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm: Meeting with farmers in Magan Sangrahalay 6 pm: Homage to Gandhi at Bapu... Read More

Yatra takes a record 17 ½ hours to reach Jabalpur from Bhopal! A Press Conference, a Public Meeting and impromptu outreach in the city….. The tougher sides of the yatra start showing signs, the second tyre puncture in a week, followed by wrong (longer) route and the worst-ever roads traveled in yatra or for that matter, anywhere else, for a long past. Calling those bad roads is an understatement as the roads were just missing for most parts. It was a collection of potholes for kilometers on end. Add to these a 3-hour traffic jam in the wilderness from around 1.30 am and you have many Murphy’s Laws proven right! It also appeared that we were given wrong advice about which route to take and therefore, ended up traveling some 60-70 kms extra unnecessarily! More...

October 10th 2010, on the Global Day of Action on Climate Change, the Minister for Farmers' Welfare & Agriculture Development in Madhya Pradesh, Dr Ramakrishna Kusmariya, endorsed the messages of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra. Please click here to read his statement.

10:30 am : Meeting with farmers in Bargi 12:30 pm : Meeting with farmers in Dhuma (Seoni district) 3:30 pm : Meeting with tribal farmers in Seoni 5:30 pm : Yatra will leave for Nagpur, for the Maharashtra leg to begin on... Read More

11:30 am : Press Conference with some Yatris 2:30 pm : Public Meeting 5 pm : Impromptu outreach to the city’s consumers and visitors at Chowpatti and Gwari Ghat on the banks of the Narmada

Delhi/Bhopal, October 10, 2010: After reaching Bhopal on the 8th day of its 71-day outreach tour, Kisan Swaraj Yatra performed “Sharad Pawar Sadbuddhi Yagna”, praying for good sense for the Union Agriculture Minister of India, so that he may immediately address the issue of agrarian crisis in the country. Hundreds of farmers and consumers from different parts of Madhya Pradesh joined members of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra at Shahjahani Park in Bhopal today for this Yagna. More...