Land titles to tribal farmers: Can Fadnavis beat Maharashtra's poor record

Fadnavis met with a delegation of the protesting farmers on March 12, 2018 and announced all the farmers' major demands had been accepted and would be fulfilled in six months

With a wooden staff in her right hand and a communist flag in the left, a diminutive, 85-year-old woman stood tall in the Azad Maidan sports ground. Kamli Babu, an adivasi (tribal) farmer who works as a farm hand for part of the year, had walked 180 km, covering 30 km each day under the harsh early summer sun, to be a part of Kisan Long March.

A peaceful protest march organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (All Indian Farmers Association), affiliated with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), the march