Rakesh Tikait, a nepotism product and a failed politician who is able to get farmers killed for his political ambitions

Even within the face of at least the Supreme Court trying to calm tempers between the farmers’ unions and the Centre, the previous aspect has determined to defy the directions of the nation’s prime courtroom and proceed with an intensified agitation in opposition to the Modi authorities as deliberate earlier. Leading the identical ‘offensive’ in opposition to the Centre is Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) senior chief and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, who’s having a splendid time attempting to construct a political and electoral enchantment for himself at the price of farmers and their lives. Tikait is, the truth is, supportive of the agitations persevering with eternally. Not a lot is understood about Rakesh Tikait amongst a majority of Indians. Yet, it’s essential to convey the person’s background and opportunism out within the public area. Not solely is Tikait a political opportunist looking for to attain electoral brownie factors for himself below the shroud of farmers’ protest, however he’s additionally a product of nepotism. Son of revolutionary farm chief Mahendra Singh Tikait, who was one of many founding members of the BKU, Rakesh has not amounted to even a fraction of what his father was again within the day. Read extra: Bharatiya Kisan Union is extra about saving Congress than about saving farmers, and there are robust causes to imagine itAs a matter of reality, Mahendra Tikait was publicly acknowledged because the “second messiah” of farmers, after former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. In distinction, his son Rakesh Tikait has been an unprecedented failure, on a number of counts no much less. In 2014, Tikait contested the Lok Sabha polls on an RLD ticket from Amroha in UP and managed to safe a meagre 0.8 per cent vote, with solely 9,359 individuals casting their poll in his assist. Rakesh Tikait completed a distant fourth behind BJP’s Kanwar Singh Tanwar, who’d secured 5.28 lakh votes, SP’s Humera Akhtar, who’d secured 3.7 lakh votes, and BSP’s Farhat Hasan, who’d secured 2.62 lakh votes.In an announcement which has uncovered the ulterior motives of Rakesh Tikait and different ‘leaders’ like him, on being requested whether or not the protesting farmers will transfer to Ramlila Maidan to proceed their protests there, he remarked, “The government has wrongly estimated that about 1,000 people would die in this agitation. In case the government tries to do away with the protests, more than 10,000 people will die.” This proves how the farmer unions and leaders like Tikait are prepared to get farmers killed, solely to attain brownie factors for themselves. Read extra: Bharatiya Kisan Union is getting lots of overseas funding for the protests. Illegally. And they’ve been caughtRakesh Tikait had in June, curiously, come out in wholehearted assist of the three revolutionary farm legal guidelines, which he and his union at the moment are up in arms in opposition to. Hailing the reforms, Tikait had mentioned that the brand new legal guidelines represented the fulfilment of a long-standing want of India’s farmers. Now, in what displays the quantum of the person’s shamelessness, he’s showing earlier than the media frequently to hurl anti-government remarks. In a jibe on the RSS and the BJP, after the Supreme Court’s determination to remain the farm legal guidelines, Tikait mentioned, “Bill wapasi nahin, ghar wapasi nahin (Won’t return home until the bill is taken back).”In what additionally exposes the hypocrisy of Tikait additional, he was supportive of the BJP earlier than the 2014 common elections. This was earlier than he joined the RLD to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amroha, maybe on being denied a ticket by the saffron occasion. It wouldn’t be hyperbole to recommend that it’s that alleged frustration which the person is now venting out in opposition to the Modi authorities. Rakesh Tikait and his ilk of opportunists have to be uncovered for who they are surely as a result of they’re something however sympathetic to the reason for farmers.