Farmers’ protest Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait says, “We have spoken about ‘Gramin Bharat Bandh’ that farmers do not go to their farms tomorrow. This will send a big message tomorrow…This agitation has a new ideology, a new method. Highways will not be shut. But meetings will continue at our meeting points and we will take decisions there…Monthly panchayat will take place in Sisauli on 17th February…We do have the demand on MSP but a strategy will have to be built on incidents that are taking place in Punjab and Haryana we hope for this. We have told not to gather as a crowd for it…As far as the Bandh is concerned, we have urged people to participate voluntarily…”
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Wrestlers’ protest: Farmers led by Rakesh Tikait stage sit-in after being prevented entry
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Scores of farmers led by BKU chief Rakesh Tikait have been on Sunday stopped by the Delhi Police on the Ghazipur border as they tried to enter the nationwide capital to take part in a protest referred to as by agitating wrestlers exterior the model new Parliament setting up.
Permission for the protest has not been given to the wrestlers who’ve been on a sit-in on the Jantar Mantar, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexually harassing girls grapplers.
“All others (farmers) have been stopped (by the police). We will sit here for now and decide what to do next,” Tikait, who had spearheaded the anti-farm regulation protests, acknowledged after being stopped by the police on the carefully fortified Ghazipur border.
Heated arguments erupted between security personnel and farmers, who tried to interrupt barricades to enter Delhi amid heavy police presence.
A senior police officer acknowledged the Ghazipur border has now been closed as a precautionary measure to forestall the farmers’ entry into the nationwide capital.
There have been web site guests jams on routes to Anand Vihar and totally different adjoining areas, and the officer acknowledged that necessary web site guests diversions have been made.
PTI
In the wake of the choice for ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat’ by the protesting wrestlers, elaborate security preparations with a variety of layers of barricades and pickets have been put in place on the Delhi borders to verify there is not a disturbance on the day of the inaugural ceremony of New Parliament setting up.
There was moreover heavy police deployment at every route significantly these important within the path of the New Delhi area.
Meanwhile, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Deependra Pathak, who was at Jantar Mantar the place wrestlers have been on a sit-in since remaining month, acknowledged that Delhi Police has made elaborate and tight security preparations all through the nationwide capital, strategic locations and its bordering areas and would make sure that regulation and order are maintained.
“Any attempt to create disturbance in the inauguration of the new Parliament building will be dealt with very politely and firmly. I request our respected athletes not to do any such thing today,” he acknowledged.
Pathak moreover acknowledged that the police isn’t going to allow anyone to delight in any anti-national actions on such an important day and might care for any situation in educated technique.
Strict vigil was being saved on all Delhi borders entry components with police ending up checking of autos.
The Delhi Police had filed two FIRs along with one beneath POCSO Act in opposition to WFI president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who has denied all the prices.
NEW DELHI: Scores of farmers led by BKU chief Rakesh Tikait have been on Sunday stopped by the Delhi Police on the Ghazipur border as they tried to enter the nationwide capital to take part in a protest referred to as by agitating wrestlers exterior the model new Parliament setting up.
Permission for the protest has not been given to the wrestlers who’ve been on a sit-in on the Jantar Mantar, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over allegations of sexually harassing girls grapplers.
“All others (farmers) have been stopped (by the police). We will sit here for now and decide what to do next,” Tikait, who had spearheaded the anti-farm regulation protests, acknowledged after being stopped by the police on the carefully fortified Ghazipur border.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
Heated arguments erupted between security personnel and farmers, who tried to interrupt barricades to enter Delhi amid heavy police presence.
A senior police officer acknowledged the Ghazipur border has now been closed as a precautionary measure to forestall the farmers’ entry into the nationwide capital.
There have been web site guests jams on routes to Anand Vihar and totally different adjoining areas, and the officer acknowledged that necessary web site guests diversions have been made.
PTI
In the wake of the choice for ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat’ by the protesting wrestlers, elaborate security preparations with a variety of layers of barricades and pickets have been put in place on the Delhi borders to verify there is not a disturbance on the day of the inaugural ceremony of New Parliament setting up.
There was moreover heavy police deployment at every route significantly these important within the path of the New Delhi area.
Meanwhile, Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Deependra Pathak, who was at Jantar Mantar the place wrestlers have been on a sit-in since remaining month, acknowledged that Delhi Police has made elaborate and tight security preparations all through the nationwide capital, strategic locations and its bordering areas and would make sure that regulation and order are maintained.
“Any attempt to create disturbance in the inauguration of the new Parliament building will be dealt with very politely and firmly. I request our respected athletes not to do any such thing today,” he acknowledged.
Pathak moreover acknowledged that the police isn’t going to allow anyone to delight in any anti-national actions on such an important day and might care for any situation in educated technique.
Strict vigil was being saved on all Delhi borders entry components with police ending up checking of autos.
The Delhi Police had filed two FIRs along with one beneath POCSO Act in opposition to WFI president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh who has denied all the prices.
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Where is the opposition, even looking isn’t getting it… Rakesh Tikait’s huge assault in Mirzapur’s Kisan Mahapanchayat
Mirzapur: A significant assault of Rakesh Tikait has come to gentle in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The farmer chief focused the ruling social gathering in addition to the opposition. In the Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat organized by the Bharatiya Kisan Union within the grounds of Adarsh Inter College, Adalhat, the federal government was accused of blasphemy. The nationwide spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikait, who reached the Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat, focused the federal government fiercely. The farmer chief stated that the federal government is simply mendacity. On the issue of stubble burning, Tikait stated that how would paddy be produced with out stubble, inform this scientist. In the general public assembly of Rakesh Tikait, numerous farmers from Mirzapur, Bhadohi, Sonbhadra and Chandauli districts participated within the Mahapanchayat. Targeting the opposition, he stated the place is the opposition? It is nowhere to be seen.
Tikat arrived on a tractor
Rakesh arrived on a ticket tractor within the Farmer Mazdoor Mahapanchayat organized within the grounds of Adarsh Inter College, Adalhat, Mirzapur. There, the farmers’ leaders gave a heat welcome to Rakesh Tikait. Addressing the Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat, Rakesh Tikait stated that on November 26, a program could be organized by the Bharatiya Kisan Union within the state capital. In such a state of affairs, there’s a name to all of you to take part on this gherao as a lot as attainable.Regarding the toll plaza constructed on the Varanasi Shaktinagar freeway, he stated that if the toll plaza isn’t eliminated by November 26, then agitation can be accomplished for it. Farmers of Bhadohi, Sonbhadra, Chandauli, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Shravasti and Gorakhpur participated within the Farmer Mazdoor Mahapanchayat. In view of the safety within the Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat, heavy police power was deployed.
Aimed on the query of free electrical energy
After addressing the farmers, Rakesh Tikait stated that on 26 November 2020, the agitation was began by the farmers in Delhi. On his anniversary, a program can be organized within the capital of each state. Here the paddy of the farmers is being offered for Rs.800 to Rs.1200. MNP ought to be applied within the nation. The authorities goes again on its guarantees. Scientist ought to inform us develop paddy with out stubble. The authorities had promised to offer free electrical energy.The engineering also needs to inform us the place free electrical energy is being offered by putting in meters above the tubewells. Regarding the election of 2024, we aren’t an astrologer. On the query of the opposition getting profit from the motion, stated whoever needs to get it. Where is the opposition, the opposition isn’t being discovered. (Report: Mukesh Pandey)
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Tractor-trolley journey ban geared toward scuttling farmers’ agitation: Rakesh Tikait
By PTI
PILIBHIT: BKU chief Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday opposed the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s transfer to ban tractor trolleys’ use for public transport, saying the choice was an try to scuttle motion of farmers, whose most popular mode of journey is thru tractors.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union chief stated he’ll write a letter to the federal government within the matter quickly.
“Were trains and other modes of conveyance banned after accidents? The government is disallowing use of tractor trolley for conveyance as part of a well planned conspiracy so that tractors are not used in farmers’ agitations,” the BKU chief, who was on his option to Uttarakhand after attending the primary anniversary of Tikunia violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, instructed media right here .
Twenty-six folks have been killed and a number of other others critically injured when a tractor trolley drove off street and fell right into a pond in Kanpur on October 1.
In the wake of the incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had appealed to the folks to comply with security requirements and had proscribed the usage of tractor- trolley or truck for public journey.
Asked concerning the paddy procurement by the federal government, Tikait stated the federal government has not issued any order on it but.
PILIBHIT: BKU chief Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday opposed the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s transfer to ban tractor trolleys’ use for public transport, saying the choice was an try to scuttle motion of farmers, whose most popular mode of journey is thru tractors.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union chief stated he’ll write a letter to the federal government within the matter quickly.
“Were trains and other modes of conveyance banned after accidents? The government is disallowing use of tractor trolley for conveyance as part of a well planned conspiracy so that tractors are not used in farmers’ agitations,” the BKU chief, who was on his option to Uttarakhand after attending the primary anniversary of Tikunia violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, instructed media right here .
Twenty-six folks have been killed and a number of other others critically injured when a tractor trolley drove off street and fell right into a pond in Kanpur on October 1.
In the wake of the incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had appealed to the folks to comply with security requirements and had proscribed the usage of tractor- trolley or truck for public journey.
Asked concerning the paddy procurement by the federal government, Tikait stated the federal government has not issued any order on it but.
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Nothing could be extra insulting: Congress on minister’s continuation on 1st anniversary of Lakhimpur Kheri violence
By PTI
NEW DELHI: On the primary anniversary of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, the Congress on Monday attacked the Modi authorities over the continuation of Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ as a minister because it cited the alleged involvement of his son in mowing down of farmers protesting towards the three farm legal guidelines which have now been repealed.
“Nothing can be more insulting that the farmers agitating against the black laws were deliberately killed while the culprit remains a member of the Union council of ministers,” Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh instructed reporters.
There was clear proof that the minister’s son was concerned within the killing, he alleged.
Mishra’s son Ashish Misra was arrested within the case after 4 farmers have been crushed beneath the wheels of a convoy of vehicles and 4 others, together with two BJP employees, have been killed in apparently retaliatory violence.
The Congress additionally reiterated its assist to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which had spearheaded the farmers’ agitation towards three farm legal guidelines, particularly its demand for a authorized assure to the minimal assist value for farm produce.
Bowing to the protests, the federal government had scrapped the legal guidelines.
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NEW DELHI: On the primary anniversary of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, the Congress on Monday attacked the Modi authorities over the continuation of Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ as a minister because it cited the alleged involvement of his son in mowing down of farmers protesting towards the three farm legal guidelines which have now been repealed.
“Nothing can be more insulting that the farmers agitating against the black laws were deliberately killed while the culprit remains a member of the Union council of ministers,” Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh instructed reporters.
There was clear proof that the minister’s son was concerned within the killing, he alleged.
Mishra’s son Ashish Misra was arrested within the case after 4 farmers have been crushed beneath the wheels of a convoy of vehicles and 4 others, together with two BJP employees, have been killed in apparently retaliatory violence.
The Congress additionally reiterated its assist to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which had spearheaded the farmers’ agitation towards three farm legal guidelines, particularly its demand for a authorized assure to the minimal assist value for farm produce.
Bowing to the protests, the federal government had scrapped the legal guidelines.
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Rakesh Tikait attacked, ink smeared on his face by three in Bengaluru
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BENGALURU: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait was attacked by three individuals at Gandhi Bhavan in Bengaluru on Monday when he was about to deal with a press convention. The three accused smeared the farmer chief’s face with black ink and tried to hit him with a mic.
The trio, who’ve been arrested, reportedly instructed the police that they had been upset with Tikait and others for not speaking in Kannada and likewise for attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi of their speeches.
The arrested have been recognized as Bharath Shetty, Pradeep and Shivakumar, members of Karnataka Sangatanegala Okkoota.At round 11 am, Tikait, together with different leaders was at Gandhi Bhavan to participate in an occasion, ‘Farmer’s Movement: Introspection and Clarification’ over allegations towards state farmer chief Kodihalli Chandrashekar that he took bribes to finish farmers’ protests on Delhi border.
When Kavitha Kuragunti, a lady farmer chief was talking in Telugu, a gaggle of individuals demanded that she communicate in Kannada. In the melee, the three accused charged at Tikait and splashed ink on his face and tried to hit him on the pinnacle with a mic. Tikait nonetheless protected himself by holding the mic together with his hand. High drama prevailed on the venue because it led to a conflict between two teams who indulged in throwing plastic chairs at one another.
No safety offered by police, says farmer chief
Another BKU chief Yudhvir Singh, who was sitting subsequent to Tikait, was additionally smeared with black ink. The High Grounds police rushed to the scene and took the three attackers into custody. Later chatting with reporters, Tikait alleged that the violence was carried out in collusion with the BJP-led authorities within the state. He mentioned no safety was offered by the native police. The police mentioned the accused had been produced earlier than a decide following which they taken been into custody for additional questioning.It could also be recalled that JDS occasion employees had made a futile bid to splash ink on Kodihalli Chandrashekhar on the Press Club of Bengaluru on Saturday and the Cubbon Park police had arrested them. Reacting to the incident, State Home Minister Araga Jnanendra mentioned strict motion will probably be taken towards the attackers, towards whom the police have already booked circumstances. Jnanendra claimed the accused weren’t BJP employees and had been current on the venue within the guise of journalists.
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Ashish Mishra Surrender: Lakhimpur violence accused Ashish Mishra surrendered, Supreme Court canceled bail
Ashish Mishra give up News: Ashish Mishra has surrendered. The Supreme Court final week ordered Ashish to give up inside per week. The Supreme Court had additionally mentioned that the Allahabad High Court didn’t hear the aggrieved social gathering.
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Rakesh Tikait launches dharna over arrest of BKU members; calls it off after talks with officers
By PTI
MUZAFFARNAGAR: BKU chief Rakesh Tikait launched a dharna on Tuesday after the arrest of his group members, however known as it off later following talks with the district authorities right here on Tuesday.
Ten activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) have been arrested after a conflict on the district hospital right here on Monday night time.
Protesting on the Kotwali police station right here since Tuesday morning, Tikait demanded their fast launch, alleging that that they had been falsely implicated within the case.
Later within the day, he withdrew the dharna after Additional District Magistrate Narendra Bahadur Singh and Superintendent of Police (City) Arpit Vijayvargiya reached the spot and requested him to name it off.
Meanwhile, the police produced the ten arrested folks to courtroom, following which Chief Judicial Magistrate Manoj Kumar Jatav despatched them to 14 days of judicial custody.
According to medical officer of the district hospital, Dr Baburam, folks belonging to 2 teams had arrived on the facility on Monday.
While one group was being medically examined, the BKU activists started demanding the examination of the opposite group, resulting in a conflict, Dr Baburam mentioned.
Tikait, who can also be the BKU’s nationwide spokesperson, advised reporters that the district authorities wished to suppress his outfit by falsely implicating the activists.
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Rakesh Tikait urges individuals to camp close to counting centres in UP, claims irregularities can happen
By PTI
BAGHPAT: Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday urged individuals to come back on tractors and camp close to counting centres in Uttar Pradesh, claiming “irregularities” may happen.
Counting of votes for the Uttar Pradesh meeting elections will happen on March 10.
“What was done in the zila panchayat (elections) cannot be ignored. Reach the counting centres a day before the counting is taken up and camp with tractors at the counting sites from March 9 itself,” Tikait instructed reporters in Baraut in Baghpat.
He additionally requested individuals to succeed in with beddings a day forward as they won’t be allowed to go there on March 10.
During the zila panchayat polls held within the state final 12 months, opposition events had alleged giant scale irregularities.
Attacking the federal government, Tikait stated that the dues of sugarcane farmers on this space had not been paid for a 12 months however in view of elections, pending funds have been cleared in 10 to fifteen days.
“I mean, the government can get payments made whenever it wants. If elections are held every year, then payment of sugarcane (farmers) can also be made every year,” he stated.
Slamming the BJP authorities on the Centre, he stated it’s in search of votes even within the Ukrainian disaster by making college students getting back from there give statements on the evacuation operation.
“Those who give statements in favour of the government are being shown and those who are telling the reality are not being shown. The elections are more important for the Indian government, are children of India not dear to them. (They are) Looking for votes in a war,” Tikait alleged.
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Rakesh Tikait on Chachajan: Why Asaduddin Owaisi, who’s coming into the battle of UP, was referred to as ‘Chacha Jaan’… Rakesh Tikait instructed every little thing
Lucknow: As the upcoming meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh are getting nearer, the agitation is rising. Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, who has turn into the face of the farmers’ motion, has now referred to as AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi ‘Chachajaan’. Tikait has focused Owaisi and referred to as him B-team of BJP. Regarding his ‘chachajaan’ assertion, Rakesh Tikait instructed in a dialog with a information channel on Wednesday, ‘Owaisi has come to UP to make BJP’s B-team win them. He is a hidden ally of BJP, who will play the sport of dividing within the title of Hindu-Muslim. And to say uncle is the tradition of our villages. What’s the purpose of creating a lot fuss about it? If somebody calls somebody ‘Abbajan’, we do not thoughts him both. Tikait additional focused the BJP and mentioned, ‘The politics of caste faith harms any nation. There must be politics of growth. We have to maneuver on from Hindu Muslim politics. Ram can be Raghuvanshi, we’re additionally Raghuvanshi. The folks of the nation can’t be cheated. Our struggle is for potato farmers and sugarcane farmers. He additionally took the initiative to neglect the bitterness that had developed between Jats and Muslims with a view to increase the scope of the peasant motion and emerge as a powerful peasant chief. They raised the slogans of ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Har Har Mahadev’ collectively within the Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat. Referring to his father Mahendra Singh Tikait, an enormous farmer chief of western UP, he mentioned that in his time he used to boost such slogans. The intention is that each these sections in Jat and Muslim dominated western UP ought to come nearer once more so {that a} strong vote financial institution will be shaped and both play an vital function wherein authorities sits in energy or can speak to the ruling governments on their very own phrases. But ‘ Rumors like ‘Abba Jaan’ can spoil their recreation. In such a scenario, by calling Owaisi ‘Chacha Jaan’, Rakesh Tikait desires to show him as an agent of BJP. At the identical time, Muslims need to warn the general public that as a substitute of dividing on this challenge, keep united in order that the Jat and Muslim equation stays. Just just like the Yadav chief ‘MY’ i.e. Muslim Yadav had managed to make the equation at one time. Tikait and Owaisi (file photograph).