After Rakesh Tikait will get vaccinated, he says Modi govt will probably be accountable if farmers get COVID-19

Amidst the alarming surge of COVID-19 instances in Delhi, BKU spokesperson and self-proclaimed ‘farmers’ chief Rakesh Tikait held the central authorities accountable if farmers protesting on the borders of the nationwide capitals are contaminated with the coronavirus. Even as Delhi is beneath a strict 6-day lockdown, Tikait insisted that it can’t be a purpose to place the ‘farmers’ protest on maintain.
Tikait, who has gotten vaccinated himself, stated that it’s the central authorities’s duty that farmers protesting alongside the Delhi borders don’t contract the coronavirus.
Speaking with Republic Media Network, Tikait stated, “Responsibility lies solely with the government if the farmers get infected with the virus. When the COVID-19 cases are rising across the country, who is responsible for it? Are farmers responsible for that too?”
He additional added, “If there is a disease, then the government should ensure treatment for it and build hospitals for it. Politicians are collecting funds for other purposes. They are conducting rallies and contesting elections.”
A few days in the past, whereas on his go to to Jammu, Rakesh Tikait had asserted that the ‘farmers’ agitation was not Shaheen Bagh that may be ended within the identify of coronavirus.
It is value noting that Rakesh Tikait, who’s spearheading the ‘farmers’ protests and insisting that the protests mustn’t cease due to the coronavirus outbreak, has himself bought vaccinated at a hospital close to the Delhi-UP border on Tuesday. Tikait took the primary dose of coronavirus vaccine at a hospital located close to the Ghazipur border protest website on April 13. 
While the nationwide capital went beneath a 6-day lockdown, Tikait asserts that farmers, lots of whom might not have gotten vaccinated, stick with their protests alongside the border, even when which means exposing themselves to the coronavirus that’s spreading at an alarming price, particularly in Delhi.
In the meantime, Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), a Punjab-based farmers group that had demanded the discharge of suspects in each the Elgar Parishad case and the Delhi riots case, has introduced a march to Delhi on April 21 with a purpose to protest in opposition to the Farm legal guidelines. This march comes at a time when Delhi goes via a surge in Coronavirus instances, with testing amenities getting overwhelmed. Yogendra Yadav, the icchadhari protestor, has now alleged that the Modi authorities is attempting to quell the protest within the identify of COVID-19 and that’s one thing he is not going to let occur.