Navi Mumbai, July 7 -- Around 15,000 people, including project-affected persons (PAPs), farmers and members of the Agri-Koli community are expected to march from Panvel to Mumbai's Vidhan Bhavan on Wednesday for the long-pending demand to name the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) after late peasants' leader Loknete Dinkar Balu (DB) Patil, organisers said.

The march follows the indefinite hunger strike launched by youth activist Rashmita Popeta that has reignited the airport naming movement just days before NMIA is scheduled to commence international flight operations on July 15.

Organised under the banner of the Loknete Diba Premi Namkaran Samiti, the procession will begin at 10am from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Chowk in Panvel...