Kunabi Sena is a political party in based in Thane District in the Mid-North Konkan or Maharashtra Konkan in Maharashtra state.
The Kunabi Sena advocates for the interests of the Kunabi community, a developing caste. It is allied with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), with whom they have coordinated peasant struggles for land and water rights. [1] Together with CPI(M) they have protested constructions of GAIL's gas pipeline through Thane. [2]
The party has also demanded the formation of a Konkan state, consisting of the Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg Districts. [3]
The founding president of the Kunabi Sena is Vishwanath Patil. [4]
The party is now part of the ruling alliance of Thane District Zilla Parishad ( County government) in an alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena; these latter two represent hardline Maharashtrian interests and are opposed to a separate Konkan State.[ citation needed]
References
- ^ The Hindu: Magazine / Issues: How the other half lives
- ^ The Hindu: National: Thane farmers oppose GAIL pipeline through their land
- ^ "Agri, Kunbi Senas demand separate Konkan state". Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2007.
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