Summary:
The state government has adopted a carrot-and-stick approach to prevent protesting farmers from entering the state capital. Despite the government's measures and overtures, the protesting farmers are determined to come into Mumbai to press for their charter of demands. "Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wants to avert the optics of thousands of farmers marching into the state capital just before the Lok Sabha polls. Irrigation minister Girish Mahajan has been entrusted with the task of convincing the farmers to call off the march. Dhawale said the protest march would be called off only after the written assurance, signed by Fadnavis, convinced farmers..