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  • In the Kisan Mahapanchayat, ‘love’ has completed hooting, Rakesh Tikait stated – we are going to discover out the ideology

    HighlightsHooting broke out amongst Kisan Mahapanchayat, infuriated Rakesh TikaitKisan chief Rakesh Tikait stated, we are going to encompass and discover out the ideology Balbir Singh Rajewal expressed displeasure concerning the hooting, Rakesh Tikait stated this Muzaffarnagar Controversial statements had been made. Meanwhile, Rakesh Tikait bought indignant on ‘his’ personal folks. In reality, when farmer chief Balbir Singh Rajewal arrived to ship his tackle, he expressed his displeasure with a gaggle of individuals current close to the stage. Balbir Singh Rajewal stated that this group of about 100 folks has insulted the individuals who have come right here. These folks have damage me loads. I’ve insulted Tikait sahib. After this Rakesh Tikait bought indignant on the folks. Rakesh Tikait stated, ‘Who are these folks? Have you been despatched with Union flags? Shut down their cameras. Put folks behind Poonam Pandit, get them out of right here. Some individuals are coming right here to misbehave. Some folks will say by way of TV that we had been misbehaved. His individuals are misbehaving. By encircling these fifty folks, I’ll search what ideology they belong to. Abhimanyu Kumar, who was current on the dais of Kisan Mahapanchayat, stated, “BJP’s conspiracy in Muzaffarnagar in 2011 was profitable. Our farmers had been divided within the title of faith and caste. The good days of BJP and RSS and unhealthy days of farmers of this nation had begun. After this assertion, Abhimanyu Kumar raised slogans in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Rakesh Tikait threatened.

  • Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat: Muslim youth serving breakfast to farmers who reached Muzaffarnagar… This image exhibits that the injuries of the 2013 riots at the moment are healed

    HighlightsMahapanchayat of farmers is occurring at GIC Ground in Muzaffarnagar in opposition to the agricultural legal guidelines of the Center Social material can be being added by Mahapanchayat Muslim youth serving breakfast to farmersIt is believed that 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots created distance between Muslim and Jat neighborhood Was born Muzaffarnagar In the GIC Ground of Muzaffarnagar, the farmers’ mahapanchayat is occurring in opposition to the agricultural legal guidelines of the Center. The entire subject is filled with farmers. Some farmers from outdoors are nonetheless reaching GIC floor. Before the 2022 meeting elections, the political that means of this mahapanchayat of farmers is being extracted, then again, the social material can be being added to it. Volunteers current there are distributing breakfast to the farmers arriving in buses. Some Muslim youths are additionally included on this. This image exhibits that the deep wounds inflicted by the 2013 riots, time has run out. This image is of Suzru space of ​​Muzaffarnagar the place the Mahapanchayat is occurring. Volunteers have organized breakfast for the farmers coming right here in buses. Halwa, banana and tea are being served to the farmers freed from value. The space has a big Muslim inhabitants, so volunteers additionally embody youths from many Muslim communities. Wounds which have healed over time It is believed that the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots had created distance between the Muslim and the Jat neighborhood. After this, the opposition, particularly within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, appealed for Jat-Muslim unity from the RLD, however the distance was clearly seen within the outcomes. But time has bridged these gaps between relationships. Mahendra Tikait’s Muslim-Jat Fronton Efforts are being made to cut back by this Mahapanchayat not solely Jat-Muslim unity but in addition the space that had come between BKU and Muslim society. In reality, when Mahendra Singh Tikait based the Bharatiya Kisan Union in 1986, he fashioned the Muslim-Jat Front on the idea of widespread pursuits associated to agriculture, which had a deep influence on the politics of the area. The native individuals take into account the 2013 riots political, however within the Khap Mahapanchayat that passed off earlier than the Muzaffarnagar riots in 2013, BKU participated together with BJP leaders. Muslims seemed away from this mahapanchayat. Even the names of the 2 Tikait brothers have been included in an FIR for inciting communalism through the riots. Some individuals in Muzaffarnagar nonetheless imagine that the riots in 2013 have been political, individuals right here nonetheless have the identical respect for one another neighborhood. Muslim youth distributing breakfast to farmers in Muzaffarnagar.

  • Rakesh Tikait shouted in Lucknow, mentioned – is not going to transfer from the border

    In Lucknow, on Friday, Rakesh Tikait, the nationwide spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), overtly warned the federal government by stepping on the soil of the capital. He mentioned that the farmer is neither going to bow down neither is he going to withdraw. Questioning the intention of the federal government, he mentioned that until the federal government doesn’t go the Kisan Bill of their favor, all of the farmers will proceed to protest like this and can stand on the border. In this system, tons of of staff of SP Chhatra Sabha, AAP pupil wing, NSUI, who got here to help the farmers, had been stopped by the police citing Section 144. Meanwhile, there was a heated argument between the employees and the police. The police locked the gate of Siroj Cafe. Angered by this perspective of the police, the activists raised slogans calling it a dictatorial perspective. A program was organized in In this program, tons of of staff of the youth wing of Samajwadi Party, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party got here to help the farmers, however because of the perspective of the police, nobody was allowed inside. Due to which there was a heated argument between the agitated activists and the police. However, the employees couldn’t go inside because the gate was locked and so they had to return from there. .

  • Rakesh Tikait reaches Sirsa, calls for launch of arrested farmers

    Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait reached Sirsa on Saturday after a number of unions gave a name to gherao the district police chief’s workplace over sedition and try and homicide circumstances towards 100 farmers for July 13 protest that had turned violent.
    Ahead of his go to, the district administration invited farmer leaders for talks and a farmers’ delegation led by Tikait shall be assembly senior officers in a short time.
    While addressing the farmers, Tikait stated, “The state government should realise that they should not indulge in a fight with us. Our fight is with the union government. The state government should realise that when the Union government has failed to push farmers back, even they can not dare to do so”.
    Drawing a comparability between farmers and troopers, Tikait added, “It is this farmer only that goes to the border and fights for the country’s honour and is called a soldier. The same soldier, when comes back to his fields, drives his tractor. We shall call our tractors, tanks only. These tanks [tractors] only will break police barricades. The same soldier, when he sits on the computer, uses Twitter. So, the state government shouldn’t underestimate us and do not instigate us. We shall set up pucca morchas and you all should have langar and stay firm.”

    Taking a dig on the Haryana BJP management, Tikait stated, “The chief minister [Manohar Lal Khattar] is roaming around in Delhi so that he can avoid this confrontation with us here. The home minister [Anil Vij] is trying hard to become the chief minister. That is the state of affairs of this government. They can continue making their efforts, but should not provoke us. Our fight is not with them [state government]. The day we shift our aim at them, they will know our power. We just want that our farmers who have been arrested should immediately be released and the sedition cases registered against them should be withdrawn.”
    A lot of farmers from throughout the state have reached Sirsa of their tractor-trolleys and personal automobiles. At sure locations, farmers have entered into transient altercations with the police, broke police barricades to achieve the venue of their meeting at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Stadium.

  • Mamata assures help to farmers’ stir, says ‘bulldozing states not good for federal structure’

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday assured her full help to the farmers’ motion in opposition to the contentious agriculture legal guidelines, at a gathering with farmer leaders Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh.
    Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Tikait and Singh had met the TMC chief to debate points associated to agriculture and native farmers.
    Thousands of farmers, principally from Punjab and Haryana, have been tenting on the borders of the nationwide capital for the previous six months in protest in opposition to the legal guidelines that have been handed by Parliament in September final 12 months.

    After the assembly, Banerjee introduced that her “support for the farmers’ movement will be there” and in an apparent jibe on the Centre, mentioned that “India is hungrily waiting for policies which will help in fighting Covid-19, assist farmers and industry.”
    Tikait, in the meantime, thanked CM Banerjee for her help and added that Bengal ought to work as a mannequin state the place farmers are given extra advantages.

    The TMC chief mentioned that there needs to be a platform the place states might converse on coverage points. “Bulldozing states is not good for the federal structure,” she mentioned.
    Ahead of the meeting elections, Tikait had visited West Bengal urging folks to not vote for the BJP. He had addressed gatherings of farmers in Kolkata and at Nandigram in East Midnapore district together with social activist Medha Patkar.
    Lashing out on the Centre, CM Banerjee mentioned the BJP authorities didn’t trouble to talk to the farmers until now. Referring to the breakdown in communication between the Centre and the farmers, the Chief Minister rhetorically requested, “…why is it so difficult to talk to the farmers?”
    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with farmer chief Rakesh Tikait, Yashwant Sinha and others at Nabanna. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
    She additional demanded the rapid withdrawal of the three farm legal guidelines.
    Banerjee’s help for the north India-based farmers’ unions comes days after the TMC introduced that the occasion would unfold its footprints outdoors West Bengal’s geographical boundaries.

    The protesting farmers speculate that the brand new legal guidelines will commercialise agriculture with out enough safety to small farmers from exploitation by massive retail chains and trade. However, the Central authorities has denied the allegations.
    Further sharpening the assault on the Narendra Modi-led central authorities, Mamata mentioned, “The BJP rule has been disastrous for all sectors from healthcare to farmers to industry. India is suffering…we are facing both natural and political disasters.”

    The CM additionally mentioned that the agriculturist leaders have requested her to speak to different state leaders on the farmers’ challenge and organise a dialogue with farmers unions. Further asserting that the farmers’ motion was not only for Punjab, Haryana or Uttar Pradesh however for the entire nation, Mamata mentioned it was crucial for states to come back collectively to debate coverage points and stand collectively in opposition to injustice.
    With PTI inputs

  • For launch of arrested farmers, Rakesh Tikait leads sit-in at Haryana police station

    A lot of farmers led by Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait continued their sit-in at Sadar police station in Fatehabad in Haryana on Sunday, demanding the discharge of two farmers. After talks failed with the police, the farmers stated they’d proceed with their protest until their calls for are met.
    Vikas and Ravi Azad had been arrested in reference to an FIR that was registered after farmers tried to gherao Jananayak Janata Party MLA Devendra Singh Babli’s residence on Wednesday evening.
    Addressing a gathering exterior the police station on Sunday, Tikait stated the protesting farmers is not going to transfer until their fellow farmers are launched. “We are ready to court arrest. We have been telling the police to either arrest us also or release them,” the BKU chief was quoted as saying by PTI.

    The protesting farmers had earlier sought the registration of a case in opposition to Babli for allegedly hurling abuses at them. Babli later expressed remorse for making “inappropriate” feedback in opposition to farmers.
    Rakesh Tikait has stated that the protest would proceed till the arrested farmers are launched. (Express picture by Manoj Dhaka)
    Talking to the media exterior the Sadar police station on Saturday, Yogendra Yadav, of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha which is spearheading the farmers’ agitation in opposition to the farm legal guidelines, stated the difficulty of launch of two farmers has not been resolved but.

    “There is a deadlock in talks between us and the police administration,” he stated. Babli had not lodged any grievance in opposition to Vikas and Ravi Azad who had been arrested, he stated, including that the federal government was not able to withdraw the case in opposition to them.
    On June 1, MLA Devender Babli’s car was attacked by a bunch of protestors in Tohana’s market space. In the assault, the JJP chief’s assistant sustained head accidents and his car was broken. The police booked a number of farmers and detained a couple of for the assault on Babli.
    Farmer leaders Rakesh Tikait and Gurnam Singh Chaduni had rushed to Fatehabad and provided arrests in an act of solidarity with the arrested farmers.
    Protesting farmers had on Wednesday stated they’d gherao all police stations throughout the state on June 7 if MLA Babli didn’t tender an apology by June 6.
    Protests in opposition to the farm legal guidelines have been occurring throughout Haryana in latest occasions. Farmers and their supporters on Saturday burnt copies of the Centre’s farm legal guidelines throughout Haryana, particularly exterior the residences of MPs, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, different ministers and MLAs.

    On Sunday, a bunch of ladies in Tikait’s presence additionally sang songs highlighting the plight of the farmers. They took a dig on the Centre and Haryana authorities on the farmers’ subject, and slammed Deputy Chief Minister and JJP chief Dushyant Chautala for not standing with the farmers.
    Tikait stated their agitation in opposition to the farm legal guidelines would proceed until the federal government repeals the farm legal guidelines and enacts a legislation on minimal help value.
    (With inputs from PTI)

  • BKU chief Rakesh Tikait, 12 others booked for violating Section 144 in Haryana

    The Haryana Police has registered a case in opposition to Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait and 12 others, who held a ‘maha panchayat’ in a village right here, for allegedly violating prohibitory orders beneath Section 144 of the CrPc, officers stated on Sunday.
    Tikait and another BKU leaders addressed the ‘kisan mazdoor maha panchayat’ in Dhurali village close to Ambala Cantt on Saturday.
    Ratan Maan Singh, Baldev Singh and Jasmer Saini are among the many different 12 farmer leaders who’ve been booked by the police.

    In view of a large surge in coronavirus circumstances, the district Justice of the Peace had imposed Section 144, which bars meeting of 4 or extra individuals.
    The police stated Assistant Sub-Inspector Chandi Singh had warned the BKU leaders to not maintain the ‘maha panchayat’ as Section 144 was enforced within the district.
    “However, BKU leaders went ahead and organised the event,” a senior police official stated.
    Based on a criticism of the assistant sub-inspector, a case was registered in opposition to Tikait and 12 different farmer leaders.
    “They violated the orders under Section 144 as well as the orders duly promulgated by the public servant (district magistrate) under Section 188 of the IPC. The other provisions of IPC added in the FIR include Section 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life),” the police official stated.
    Addressing the ‘maha panchayat’, Tikait, who’s the nationwide spokesperson of BKU, reiterated that the agitation in opposition to the Centre’s new farm legal guidelines will proceed until the time these legislations are repealed.
    He requested the farmers to arrange themselves for an extended battle.

    The BKU chief additionally hit out on the authorities over its dealing with of the COVID disaster, saying varied hospitals throughout the nation are grappling with a extreme scarcity of medical oxygen.
    Talking to the media later, Tikait stated throughout the occasion, farmers had been informed that they need to take all of the steps to guard themselves from the illness.

  • Farmers prepared to speak if govt invitations, no change in calls for: Rakesh Tikait

    Farmers protesting the contentious new farm legal guidelines are prepared to speak if the Centre invitations them, BKU chief Rakesh Tikait stated on Sunday, sustaining that the dialogue would resume the place it had ended on January 22 and the calls for stay unchanged.
    He stated for the talks to renew, the federal government ought to invite the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella physique representing the protestors who’re tenting on the three border factors of Delhi at Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur since November 2020.
    “The talks with the government would resume from the same point where it had ended on January 22. The demands are also the same — all three ‘black’ farm laws should be repealed, a new law made to ensure MSP (minimum support price) for crops,” Tikait was quoted as saying in a press release issued by BKU media in-charge Dharmendra Malik.
    The BKU nationwide spokesperson’s remarks got here in response to Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij urging Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to renew talks with protesting farmers amid the coronavirus scare looming massive.

    Maintaining {that a} surge within the coronavirus instances is being seen throughout the nation and the state of affairs is popping dangerous in Haryana too, Vij stated he’s apprehensive concerning the farmers protesting on the state borders with Delhi.

    The protestors and the federal government final had a proper dialogue over the contentious challenge on January 22 however the deadlock continued. On January 26, the protestors had carried out a ‘tractor parade’ in Delhi which had escalated right into a violence involving farmers and the police within the nationwide capital.

  • Stones pelted at Rakesh Tikait’s cavalcade in Rajasthan’s Alwar, says police

    The convoy of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait was allegedly attacked in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday, with the farmer chief holding the BJP answerable for the incident.
    According to the police, 4 individuals together with scholar union president of an area college has been taken into preventive custody for disrupting peace.
    Tikait, who was in Rajasthan to deal with a ‘kisan panchayat’ in Alwar’s Harsoli, shared a video on Twitter displaying a automobile that was a part of his convoy. Supporters of Tikait may be heard accusing the BJP of firing on the automobile and throwing ink on it.

    राजस्थान के अलवर जिले के ततारपुर चौराहा, बानसूर रोड़ पर भाजपा के गुंडों द्वारा जानलेवा पर हमला किए गए, लोकतंत्र के हत्या की तस्वीरें pic.twitter.com/aBN9ej7AXS
    — Rakesh Tikait (@RakeshTikaitBKU) April 2, 2021
    “A murderous attack was made by the goons of BJP at the Tatarpur crossing in Bansur, Alwar district. Pictures of the murder of democracy,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi together with the video.
    The police stated the incident befell on Friday afternoon when Tikait was going from the venue of 1 kisan panchayat to a different.
    “Tikait had two public meetings today in Alwar. After addressing a public meeting in Harsoli, Tikait was going to the venue of another meeting in Bansur. While he was on the way, some people under the leadership of Kuldip Rao, the student union president Raj Rishi Bharthari Matsya University showed black flags at the convoy of Tikait,” stated Bhiwadi SP Ram Moorty Joshi.
    He added that the protesters additionally allegedly threw ink on the convoy.
    “The car on which Tikait was travelling had already gone ahead when the incident took place. We have information that the protesters also threw ink on the cars. We have also found that the glass of one of the cars in Tikait’s convoy was broken. There was an altercation between the supporters of Tikait and those who showed them black flags. We have taken four people including Rao into preventive custody for disrupting peace,” stated Joshi.
    He added that until now, no criticism has been submitted by the farmers’ aspect and no FIR has been lodged.
    Atul Agre, circle officer, Kishangarh Vas stated in preliminary investigation no proof of firing has come throughout.
    Alwar North BJP president Balwan Yadav stated he was not conscious of the incident.

  • Former CM Kumaraswamy calls for Karnataka Police to withdraw FIR in opposition to Rakesh Tikait

    Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Thursday condemned the police for submitting an FIR in opposition to Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait in reference to a “provocative speech” he delivered in Shivamogga final weekend.
    “If they really wanted to book cases against those indulging in provocative speeches, how many cases should have been booked against BJP leaders by now?” Kumaraswamy mentioned.
    The senior Janata Dal (Secular) chief demanded the withdrawal of instances in opposition to Tikait. “It is well within the rights granted by the Constitution to take up struggles and to give a call for struggle. He did not call for assaulting or killing. The case against Tikait should be withdrawn at the earliest,” Kumaraswamy added.
    Addressing a farmers’ mahapanchayat in Shivamogga, his first in South India, Tikait had urged Karnataka farmers to put siege to Bengaluru with their tractors, in protest in opposition to the three contentious farm legal guidelines, and convert town into the point of interest of agitation, like in Delhi.
    “….you have to turn Bengaluru into Delhi. You will have to lay siege to the city from all directions,” he had mentioned in his March 20 speech.

    Later, on March 23, an FIR was registered at Kote police station in Shivamogga on suo motu foundation over the alleged provocative speech. According to the police, part 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to trigger riot) of the Indian Penal Code was invoked in opposition to the farmer chief.
    At the identical assembly, Hasiru Sene Chief Kodihalli Chandrashekhar additionally supported name for bandh on March 26 to accentuate the protests in opposition to the Centre’s farm legal guidelines