 We consider the September 5th rally to be an extremely important, very significant event because in the past we have had rallies individually of workers or peasants or agricultural labourers but this is the first time that you are going to have a joint rally. Now obviously if we, both agricultural labourers and peasants and of course working class of the urban areas have greatly suffered under the neoliberal regime. We know about the peasants suicides, we know about the fact that agricultural labourers days of work have shrunk greatly and we also know about the fact that in the urban areas unemployment, casualization, all these have been growing at an increasingly frenetic pace. So this is a period in which for all these oppressed classes to come together is not only natural but something which marks a very significant event in the struggle against neoliberalism. But additionally, this neoliberal policies have also created a conjuncture, created a situation in which communal authoritarian forces have been on the rise. There have been lynch mobs going around the country with impunity, terrorizing intellectuals, terrorizing people belonging to minority groups and so on. But until now, well until recently at any rate, large scale arrests had not taken place but even that restraint is now gone. Yesterday as you know civil rights activists all over the country were picked up. Now against this of course there are immediate ways of fighting which we are all doing in various ways but if we want to change this whole position, if we want to change the situation in which these forces thrive then of course the worker peasant unity is essential for which the kind of event that is going to happen on September 5th marks a real crucial beginning. So September 5th rally is something which in my view would constitute a departure as far as the politics of this country is concerned and that is why we really invite everybody to come and cover that rally and participate in it etc. The demands which are being raised of course are immediate demands but the point about such a rally is that it brings together people and from these demands then we move on to higher levels of intervention. They are listed here which you must have got it. There's an appeal here which you must have got and the list of signatories to this appeal is also here. We all know, let's begin with what we actually are all very agreed about and clear about namely that there is a huge agrarian crisis in the country. Three lakh peasants have committed suicide over the last two decades, more than three lakhs. So this agrarian crisis is really driving a lot of peasants, distressed peasants to the towns in search of jobs. There are no jobs in towns. They join this enormous mass of unemployed, under-employed, inter-employed, casual employed and so on which actually brings down the wages as well as the hours of work of already those who are employed. So the distress of the peasants spills over into a distress of the working class. Their economic fates get linked jointly in the current situation which is why any resistance by any group of them is something which necessarily evokes not only sympathy from the others but these two different kinds of resistance must go together to be successful. So I think this is really a very good, I mean normally for instance, I mean I've been around for a long time, we used to say many, many, many years ago that if the workers' wages, real wages have to be protected, then the prices of the peasants have to be kept low. But as a matter of fact, nowadays what you find is that the low prices are actually lowering the wages of the workers. So the economy has changed under neoliberalism in a way that their fates have got linked in a way that it wasn't earlier in the same way. So that is why I think now there is this tendency to come together and I think it's a very significant event for the country. Then you say the follow-up, I mean let's not forget to start with we had the Kisan march in Maratha, which was an amazing event. And now we are having this, I'm sure there are other events which this would be followed by, which I'm sure they would be able to tell you in detail but they have been planned. So I think this is the beginning of a new kind of awakening. All these demands are easily capable of being fulfilled in the current, given the state of the economy. But they would not be fulfilled because all of them would be one way or the other frowned upon by the neoliberal regime. Therefore it is not as if these demands cannot be fulfilled but their fulfillment requires an act of political intervention that actually is willing to curb the tendency of neoliberalism to actually squeeze these losses. Now in order to arouse that kind of response we are having the rally. The more pressure you put, the more the government would be in a position or would be forced to take a position where these spontaneous impulses of neoliberalism are curbed and some concessions are made to the working people.