Though Rakesh Tikait, the chief of the ‘apolitical farmers protest’ has repeatedly declared to maintain the agitation off-limits for political events, he himself has been repeatedly seen departing from this technique. Tikait, who has been repeatedly describing his platform as fully non-political, was on Friday noticed with a number of Congress leaders in Jodhpur.
On March 12, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait was in Kharia Khangar in Bhopalgarh subdivision in Jodhpur, as a part of his ‘Mahapanchayat’ rally, a five-state tour being executed by Tikait to drum up assist for the farmers’ protest, when he was welcomed by scores of Congress leaders, together with former Congress MP Badriram Jakhar, former district chief Munnidevi Godara, former deputy district chief Hiralal Mundel, former RAJSICO President Sunil Parihar, former municipality chief Babulal Tak, Ranaram Nain, VP Singh Kud, district Rajlani’s Sarpanch and Congress member Paras Gurjar, and many others.
The BKU chief was not solely seen main a gathering of Congress leaders however was additionally seen using a tractor that bore a Congress get together banner welcoming Tikait to Jodhpur.
The poster had senior Congress chief and former MP Badriram Jakhar’s title written on it. After the image of Rakesh Tikait using the ‘Congress tractor’ went viral on the microblogging web site, social media customers referred to as out Tikait for his deception and double requirements.
#FarmersProtestHijacked Rakesh Tikait, who repeatedly describes his platform as fully non-political, seen with senior Congressman & former MP Badriram Jakhar main a gathering of Congress leaders for the Kisan Mahapanchayat.These are NOT farmers, these are politicians! pic.twitter.com/pE3p8G2jzP— Priti Gandhi – प्रीति गांधी (@MrsGandhi) March 13, 2021
Tikait, of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, has 5 rallies deliberate in Rajasthan on this month. It is obvious that by these farmers’ conferences Tikait is definitely attempting to construct up his personal political base.
Earlier as we speak, Rakesh Tikait reached Kolkata airport the place he was obtained by TMC’s Dola Sen in poll-bound West Bengal. Here too, Tikait was seen spending time with numerous TMC leaders and interesting to folks to vote in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party within the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal. According to reviews, Tikait and different ‘farmer leaders’ are additionally slated to go to Nandigram on Saturday night, whereas they are going to go to Singur and Asansol on Sunday.
What turns into extraordinarily obvious right here is that Rakesh Tikait, who was a forgotten man till the present protests have been launched, has solely been utilizing the continuing farmer’s agitation as a device to, resurrect his political profession, even when, within the course of, he needed to mastermind farmer tractor rally that led to an riot on twenty sixth January, he had no qualms in doing so.