'INDIA alliance voice of farmers': Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, Sanjay Raut meet in Nashik

In a show of solidarity, former union agriculture minister and NCP(SP) chief, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena(UBT) MP, Sanjay Raut, shared the dais with Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi, at the farmers’ rally in the onion growing Chandwad area in Nashik District, during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. (Photo/Agencies)

On Thursday, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies, which include the Congress, NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT), and Left parties, intensified their criticism of the BJP-led Central government, charging it with being anti-farmer. They also gave assurances that the INDIA bloc government would strive to safeguard and improve the lives of growers. (Photo/ Agencies)

In their addresses, the three leaders—Sanjay Raut, Rahul Gandhi, and Sharad Pawar—attacked the Centre for the current state of farmers' hardship, increased unemployment, and attempts to defend the interests of a small number of billionaires and businessmen. (Photo/Agencies)

In addition to waiving farmer loans, Rahul Gandhi pledged to restructure the crop insurance programme to assist cultivators, safeguard crop prices in formulating export-import policies, and work towards removing agriculture from the GST and implementing a single tax. (Photo/Agencies)

NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar accused the central government of being apathetic to the plight of farmers and the agriculture sector. (Photo/ Agencies)

NCP(SP) chief Pawar reminded the growers of the UPA’s decision to waive off Rs 70,000 crore loans. "Due to lack of a proper price for their produce, farmers are debt-ridden and committing suicide. The UPA government had waived off Rs 70,000 crore loan of farmers," he said. (Photo/Agencies)

Pawar exhorted the farmers to unite to work for the defeat of the present rulers at the Centre for their neglect of the farmers, the working class and also for their failure to address burning issues such as burgeoning unemployment and price rise. "It is our collective responsibility to defeat the anti-farmer, anti-youth government which invites inflation," the former Union minister said. (Photo/Agencies)

Criticising the Agnipath scheme (under which soldiers are enrolled as Agniveers by the armed forces), Rahul Gandhi said the Agniveers are excluded from pension and martyrdom status and are given training for only six months. (Photo/ Agencies)

MP Sanjay Raut claimed, in the rally, that due to the Centre’s switch-on and switch-off export and import policies nearly 25 lakh onion growers had been hit and incurred losses to the tune of a whopping Rs 20,000 crore. He claimed that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre was working in a dictatorial way. (Photo/Agencies)

The 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', which kicked off from Manipur in mid-January, is scheduled to conclude with a rally in Mumbai on March 17. (Photo/ Agencies)