Image Source : PTI (FILE) Rakesh Tikait to go to Gujarat to mobilise help for farmers’ stir
Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait has mentioned that he’ll go to Gujarat quickly go to Gujarat to drum up help for the motion in opposition to the Modi authorities’s farm legal guidelines. He mentioned this as he met visiting teams of supporters from Gujarat and Maharashtra at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border the place he has been tenting alongside along with his supporters since November.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) nationwide spokesperson additionally claimed that farmers will finally not be capable of take any a part of their farm produce as a result of the brand new legal guidelines will favour solely the companies.
Citing an instance, he mentioned, “The milk produced in villages cost around Rs 20-22 per litre but when it reaches cities through corporations, it costs consumers anywhere above Rs 50 per litre.”
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“Now the corporations are building large storage houses and warehouses to store foodgrains and once there will be shortage in market, they will sell it at rates of their choice,” Tikait mentioned. “We will not let such a situation arise. We are only concerned about this and will not let corporate control crops in the country,” he added.
Tikait was introduced with a “charkha” (spinning wheel) by the visiting group from Gandhidham in Gujarat.
“Gandhiji had used charkha to drive the British out of India. Now, we will use the charkha to drive out corporates. We will soon go to Gujarat and mobilise support for the farmers’ protest for repeal of the new laws,” he added.
Tikait final week mentioned that he may even go to the poll-bound West Bengal quickly.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and west UP are tenting at Delhi border factors of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur with a requirement that the Centre repeal the three new farm legal guidelines and make a brand new one guaranteeing minimal help value (MSP) for crops, fearing the legislations would damage their livelihood. The authorities, which has held 11 rounds of formal talks with the protesting farmers unions, has maintained the legal guidelines are pro-farmer.
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