Suneet Chopra, Central committee member of the CPI (M) and joint secretary of the All India Agricultural Workers Union, inaugurated the convention.

The convention was greeted by CPI (M) state secretary Ram Sumer Yadav, Dinanath Singh, state secretary of AIKS, Dawlat Ram, state president of CITU, Ram Jag, Ram Kirpal both MLA, Jagmohan, AIAWU vice-president.

Ambika Prasad Mishra, state secretary of AIAWU then placed the demand charter before the convention. It called for plugging loopholes in the land laws and a ceiling of 12.5 acres irrigated and 20 acres un-irrigated to be implemented strictly; called for all waste, bhoodan, benami land to be given to the landless with documents of land-ownership and ensured possession; the same should be done with village common lands handed over to the forest department; land ownership documents should be given jointly in the name of husbands and wives; after assuring possession to the beneficiaries of land legislation should be assured inputs, fertiliser, seed, credit and other facilities at subsidised rates; land illegally held by landlords and powerful men, or by industrialists in the name of starting industry should be seized and distributed among the landless; forest lands without forest cover should be distributed to tribal people, adivasis and dalits living in the areas; all land documents illegally acquired by landlords and powerful men to grab land be declared void; an employment guarantee scheme as well as a "food for work" programme be instituted to provide full employment; the existing minimum wage of Rs.47 per day be implemented and the demand for Rs.60 per day be made; equal wages for equal work for both men and women; a law in UP on the model of the Kerala legislation of 1974; health schemes, education and cultural schemes to be implemented at the development block level; house-sites and Rs..50,000 to build a hut; strict steps to end social oppression; strict punishment to police and administrative personnel, landlords and their goons where rapes and mass murder take place; steps to end corruption in development schemes affecting scheduled castes and tribes; old age and widows’ pensions to be a minimum Rs.200 per month, and schemes to help migrant workers brought in for irrigation canals and other public works to find permanent homes where they have been working for a long period of time. He gave a siring call at the end to take up these issues at the grass roots level and force the authorities to implement them.