A Successful Nationwide Strike to Save MGNREGA

ON May 15, 2026, all of rural India echoed with the voices of agricultural and rural workers demanding reinstatement of MGNREGA and roll back of VB-GRAM (G). Tens of lakhs of workers participated in the strike called by the joint platform of agricultural and rural workers’ unions and the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha. In thousands of villages, MGNREGA workers along with many agricultural and rural workers gathered together outside gram panchayats protesting and demonstrating and submitting a memorandum of their demands to the Panchayat Presidents.

Kharif MSP: Government Insensitive to Farmers’ Plight

The BJP-led Union Government has once again cheated the farmers of India by declaring a paltry increase in Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the Kharif season of 2026. This is in no way commensurate with the massive increase in the costs of inputs like seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, diesel, petrol, electricity, and water, especially in the context of the West Asian crisis.

AIKS Strongly Protests Failure to Curb Surge in Fertiliser Prices, Demands Measures to Prevent Black Marketing and Hoarding

The Modi Regime’s policy of succumbing to US Imperialism has damaged India’s energy, fuel and fertiliser security. Inadequate Fertiliser stocks will lead to diminished harvest yields, food inflation and escalate rural economic distress.

AIAWU Rejects Central Government Notification for Implementation of VB-G RAM G

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified the implementation date for Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G). The notification is titled ‘Historic Commencement of VB-G RAM G.’ It is indeed historic in the way this act has been forcibly pushed through parliament and it is historic because it puts an end to the only nationwide demand drive scheme of guaranteed employment – the MGNREGA Act.

AIKS Extends Full Support to All-India Strike of MGNREGA Workers on 15 May

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has extended its full solidarity and support to the all-India strike of MGNREGA workers on May 15, 2026, jointly called by the Platform of Agricultural and Rural Workers’ Unions and the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.

AIKS Haryana To Launch Mass Campaign on Flood Related Issues

A convention of flood affected farmers organised by the AIKS state committee at Hisar on April 28 resolved to fight for permanent solutions to the repeatedly occuring floods in various parts of Haryana and other neighbouring states.

MGNREGA Workers in Distress: Deepening Crisis in Rural Employment

THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s most significant rights-based rural employment programme, has long served as a lifeline for the rural poor. This law guarantees every rural household 100 days of statutory employment annually. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has effectively dismantled MGNREGA, pushing the lives of rural workers into a vortex of uncertainty.

SKM to Oppose India-US Trade Deal Tooth and Nail

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) National Council meeting held on February 24, 2026, at Kurukshetra in Haryana decided to oppose the anti-national India-US Trade Deal tooth and nail across the country. Over 200 SKM leaders from across the country attended this meeting.

AIKS Calls for Protest Against Govt. Betrayal in US Deal

All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has issued the following declaration on the Modi government’s decision to allow import of cotton from the US:

Trade Deals and FTAs: Shameful Surrender to Imperialism

Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrendered to the diktats of US Imperialism and agreed to a humiliating lop-sided trade deal by seriously compromising India’s sovereignty. The “deal” announced unilaterally by Donald Trump over his social media platform, and welcomed by Narendra Modi on X, seems more like a promise extracted with a boot on the throat.

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