The CPI (ML) started an indefinite dharna at Jamaniya tehsil in Ghazipur on 31 March. The main demands of the dharna were as follows: (i) make medicines available at government hospitals, (ii) vacate dominant/powerful forces from land belonging to villages, society and banjaras, (iii) give residential lease to dalits and poor, (iv) include all poor in food security scheme after house to souse survey, (v) give work in MNREGA, otherwise give allowance, benefit of Lohiya awaas scheme to all landless poor.
A lock-out of the tehsil was announced in support of the demands on 4 April. About 700-800 men and women with lathis and arrows gathered at the protest. The administration gave assurance that a list would be prepared for food security, revenue teams would be constituted in every village for housing lease and irregularities in social pensions would be ended. Conceding to the party’s demand, the CO announced that the Goonda Act has been slapped on Sanjay Singh and Badar district has been asked to take action. He said that life saving drugs have arrived at district government hospitals in Jamaniya, Bhadora, Revatipur, and Dildarnagar. The dharna was called off after these announcements.
On 8 April a march was called at Tiyari village against the police-goonda nexus in which 400-500 Party workers along with many villagers participated in spite of the police refusing permission for the march. Speakers at the meeting pointed out that feudal attack on the poor have escalated after the Modi government came to power. If the Jamaniya police had registered a case and sent the feudal goondas to jail, this march would not have taken place. They promised that if justice is not done, the agitation will be taken further. With powerful slogans demanding the rights of the poor, it was announced that after a 100 day campaign, the poor and the working class would be mobilized for a massive protest.