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  • When individuals collect in crowds, they will change governments: Rakesh Tikait

    A day after Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stated that “mere gathering of crowd does not lead to revocation of legislations”, farmer chief Rakesh Tikait hit again stating “when people gather, governments get changed.”
    The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief, who is basically credited with reviving the agitation on the Delhi borders in opposition to the agri legal guidelines publish the Republic Day violence throughout a tractor rally, additionally warned that the federal government may discover it tough to remain in energy if the brand new agri-marketing legal guidelines will not be repealed.

    “Mantri kahte hain ki bheed jutane se kanoon nahi badale jaate. Inki buddhi bhrast ho gayee. Bheed jutne se sarkaren badalti hain. (The minister says the laws are not repealed by gathering crowds. They have lost their mind. When people gather in crowds, they can change governments),” Tikait stated.
    Addressing a Kisan Mahapanchayat at Kharkhoda city of Haryana’s Sonipat district, Tikait stated the farmers’ agitation will proceed until the time the Centre accepts their calls for of repealing the legislations. “They (the government) should know if farmers can destroy their own produce, then you are nothing before them,” Tikait stated.
    New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait teaches college kids at farmers’ protest web site at Ghazipur border, in New Delhi, (PTI)
    On Sunday, Union agriculture minister Tomar had in Gwalior stated the Centre was prepared to speak to the farmers, however the unions ought to say as to what’s anti-farmer within the new legal guidelines. “You flatly say revoke the laws…It doesn’t happen that crowd gathers and the laws get revoked,” Tomar had stated. The Union minister had additional stated that authorities is able to make amendments to the legal guidelines and “if the agitating unions are well-wishers of the farmers, then they should make it clear which provisions” are problematic.
    Tikait stated, “There are many questions…it is not only the farm laws, but the electricity (amendment) bill, the seed bill… what kind of laws do they want to bring? Their ministers say the farmers don’t have knowledge about the laws. For a farmer, the laws are okay, if their crops are purchased at fair prices. If you buy their crops at half the prices, then what will you tell about the laws”.
    Farmers throughout a Kisan Mahapanchayat at a grain market close to Ludhiana. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh)
    Stating that the agitation was not simply of farmers, but additionally of the poor, each day wagers and different sections, the BKU chief stated the agri legal guidelines will destroy the poor. “This is not just one law, many more laws like these will be introduced. If brakes are not applied now, they (government) will be uncontrollable”.
    Claiming that the farmers will not be being given minimal help worth (MSP) for all of their crops, the BKU chief stated, “23 crops, including bajra, are not purchased at MSP rates. Our agitation is for a law which will not allow purchase of crops below MSP.”

    Referring to the opposition to the BJP ministers at any time when they go to villages to persuade farmers relating to the farm legal guidelines, Tikait stated, “They (BJP) send their MPs to hold talks (with farmers) in the villages. On the very first day, they started getting (adverse) results. Nobody is offering them seats,” he stated.
    Hisar: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait through the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ in Hisar. (PTI)
    He additionally criticised the federal government for lodging instances in opposition to the farmers, journalists and people related to the agitation. “They impose the cases under Section 307 (attempt to murder) like they are distributing prasad. They will be taught a lesson.”
    Reposing confidence within the management of a 40-member committee of farmer leaders, Tikait requested the federal government to renew talks. The authorities has held 12 rounds of talks with protesting unions up to now.

    The BKU chief stated the farmers took over three lakh tractors to Delhi on the decision of Sayunkat Kisan Morcha. “Delhi (Centre) should not be in illusion that the tractors were brought on rent…We have a target of associating 40 lakh tractors with the agitation. The tractor will be the face of farmer agitation in the entire world. Farmers are participating in the agitation everywhere… As many as 10,000 tractors participated in agitation in Karnataka but it couldn’t be highlighted as pen and cameras are under the surveillance of gun.”.
    Tikait stated seven kisan mahapanchayats have been deliberate in Rajasthan for this month solely.
    Tikait asks farmers to not destroy their crops
    Referring to stories that some farmers have destroyed their standing crop in protest in opposition to three legal guidelines, Tikait requested them to not resort to such motion. “The time has not come to destroy the crops. As of now, the farmers will participate in the agitation, will do works in their fields and will keep an eye on the policies introduced by Delhi (Centre).” Four days again, Tikait had stated that farmers needs to be ready to sacrifice one crop to proceed the agitation.

  • Rakesh Tikait to go to Gujarat to mobilise help for farmers’ stir

    Image Source : PTI (FILE) Rakesh Tikait to go to Gujarat to mobilise help for farmers’ stir 
    Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait has mentioned that he’ll go to Gujarat quickly go to Gujarat to drum up help for the motion in opposition to the Modi authorities’s farm legal guidelines. He mentioned this as he met visiting teams of supporters from Gujarat and Maharashtra at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border the place he has been tenting alongside along with his supporters since November.

    The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) nationwide spokesperson additionally claimed that farmers will finally not be capable of take any a part of their farm produce as a result of the brand new legal guidelines will favour solely the companies.

    Citing an instance, he mentioned, “The milk produced in villages cost around Rs 20-22 per litre but when it reaches cities through corporations, it costs consumers anywhere above Rs 50 per litre.”

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    “Now the corporations are building large storage houses and warehouses to store foodgrains and once there will be shortage in market, they will sell it at rates of their choice,” Tikait mentioned. “We will not let such a situation arise. We are only concerned about this and will not let corporate control crops in the country,” he added.

    Tikait was introduced with a “charkha” (spinning wheel) by the visiting group from Gandhidham in Gujarat.

    “Gandhiji had used charkha to drive the British out of India. Now, we will use the charkha to drive out corporates. We will soon go to Gujarat and mobilise support for the farmers’ protest for repeal of the new laws,” he added.

    Tikait final week mentioned that he may even go to the poll-bound West Bengal quickly. 

    Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and west UP are tenting at Delhi border factors of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur with a requirement that the Centre repeal the three new farm legal guidelines and make a brand new one guaranteeing minimal help value (MSP) for crops, fearing the legislations would damage their livelihood. The authorities, which has held 11 rounds of formal talks with the protesting farmers unions, has maintained the legal guidelines are pro-farmer.

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  • Bijnor News: Farmer drove tractor on wheat standing within the fields, Rakesh Tikait additionally appealed in opposition to the agricultural legislation

    Bijnor A farmer in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh plowed a standing wheat crop within the discipline. A 27-year-old farmer named Sohit Ahlawat destroyed wheat in 6 bighas with a tractor himself. The farmer himself additionally made a video of this complete incident. He took this step in protest in opposition to the brand new agricultural legal guidelines. Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait had made such an attraction a day earlier than on the Mahapanchayat. A video clip of Sohit, a resident of Kulchana village in Chandpur tehsil of Bijnor, went viral on social media. In the video, he himself is seen sitting on a tractor plowing his crop. He additionally talked about within the video that he’s taking such a step in opposition to the agricultural legal guidelines. Ahlawat’s father Sanjeev Kumar owns 40 bighas of land. Sohit stated within the video, ‘You can see the crop standing within the fields. I’m ruining the crop in entrance of everybody. I’m taking this step in assist of the farmers’ motion. I don’t need these three black legal guidelines to be imposed on us. Through this, our household from Bijnor has determined to ship a message to the federal government. Rakesh Tikait, chief of the Indian Farmers Union, had a day earlier known as upon the farmers to strengthen the motion on the mahapanchayat. He additionally appealed to destroy crops on account of protest. On watching the video of Ahlawat, Tikait stated, ‘I used to be harm by this. This doesn’t imply loss. But if the federal government doesn’t hearken to us then extra folks ought to achieve this. .

  • Tikait to be in Yavatmal, SKM seeks to carry kisan mahapanchayat once more

    THE SAMYUKTA Kisan Morcha (SKM), which was denied permission to carry its proposed ‘kisan mahapanchayat’ on February 20 in Yavatmal, has utilized afresh for permission for holding the programme saying they’d agree with phrases and situations required to be adopted.
    Sandip Gidde, Maharashtra coordinator of the SKM, informed The Indian Express, “We were told that we can’t hold the proposed rally due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. But we are determined to hold it and have applied afresh to Yavatmal Superintendent of Police seeking permission with all restrictions required to be followed. We are ready to hold it even with two persons in attendance. But we will hold it all the same.” Gidde warned, “If they deny us permission again, then we will go ahead and hold a sit-in (thiyya) in front of the collector’s office,” including, “hal chalane wala hath nahin jodega (one who holds the plow will not fold his hands).”
    Gidde mentioned, “Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait will be in Yavatmal as scheduled and will take part in the programme on February 20.”

    Gidde added, “The MVA government should politicise the issue. Several such mahapanchayats have been held in states like UP, Rajasthan and Haryana. So, Maharashtra should also allow it when we are ready to follow all rules and regulations.”

  • Farmers gained’t return, will burn crops if pressured to return to harvesting: Rakesh Tikait

    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait Thursday reiterated that the protesting farmers won’t return to harvesting till their calls for are met and warned the federal government that they may burn their crops if they’re pressured to return.
    Asserting that the farmers are adamant on the elimination of all three agricultural legal guidelines fully, Tikait, addressing a protest rally in Haryana’s Kharak Punia, stated that the Centre shouldn’t be beneath any false impression that the farmers will return to crop harvesting and that the protests would finish in two months.
    “If they insist, then we will burn our crops,” Tikait stated, and added, “We will harvest as well as protest”.
    He additional stated that crop costs haven’t elevated at the same time as gasoline costs have gone up. “If the Centre ruins the situation, we will take our tractors to West Bengal as well. Farmers are not getting MSP there also,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.

    Thousands of protesting farmers on Thursday sat on railway tracks at many locations in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as a part of the ‘rail roko’ protest towards the Centre’s new agriculture legal guidelines, with officers stopping trains at stations as a precautionary measure.
    The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella physique of farmer unions, which is spearheading the protest, final week had introduced the nationwide rail blockade to press for its demand to repeal the legislations and had stated that the agitation will probably be from 12 pm to 4 pm.
    The farmers have been protesting since late November at Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, demanding a rollback of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
    The protesting farmers have expressed apprehension that these legal guidelines would pave the way in which for the dismantling of the minimal assist worth (MSP) system, leaving them on the “mercy” of massive firms.
    However, the federal government has maintained that the brand new legal guidelines will deliver higher alternatives to farmers and introduce new applied sciences in agriculture.

    Earlier final week, Tikait had asserted that the agitating farmers weren’t aiming at any change in energy on the Centre however an answer to their issues. Tikait stated that the agitation will probably be lengthy drawn and proceed until authorities begins talks with farmer leaders.
    He additionally asserted that the unity of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella physique of the farmer unions protesting towards the contentious farm legal guidelines, was intact and warned the federal government to not be in any phantasm.
    – With PTI inputs

  • Plowing on the Ghazipur border, Tikait mentioned – to alert the federal government, sow barley right here

    Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh: Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait will sow barley on the place the place the administration has erected spikes on the Ghazipur border in Ghaziabad. Tikait has began farming by operating plow on Thursday. Rakesh Tikait had additionally requested for a buffalo for the plow. He informed that he would sow barley right here to warn the federal government. Tikait additionally mentioned that Kranti Park can be constructed by putting mud right here. Let the administration put nails on the street to cease the protesters at Ghazipur border. At the identical time iron bars had been additionally made by doing strict barricades. There was quite a lot of ruckus about this. Now on the similar place, Rakesh Tikait has determined to do farming. He referred to as for buffalo on Thursday and plow there. He mentioned that he would sow barley at that place, which might turn out to be giant sufficient in 7-8 days. Rakesh Tikait mentioned that we’re doing this to warn the federal government. Kranti Park can be constructed right here by preserving soil and moreover this Rakesh Tikait can also be concerned in arranging the tricolor flag on the Ghazipur border. Explain that for 2 months, farmers have been protesting in opposition to agricultural legal guidelines on the Ghazipur border. On Thursday, the United Kisan Morcha has additionally referred to as for a rail roko motion in the identical sequence. Tikait mentioned that farmers throughout the nation will take part on this motion and can cease rail. .

  • Rakesh Tikait says farmers motion set to increase to Bengal

    Image Source : PTI Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait at Ghazipur border throughout the ongoing farmers agitation towards the three farm legal guidelines, in New Delhi.
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait has stated that the farm motion would prolong to the state of West Bengal within the coming days.

    Speaking to IANS, Tikait stated, “Is West Bengal an outside state? Then why can’t we go to West Bengal? The farmers there are not getting good rates for their crops.”

    He additional stated that Bengal is close to the ocean and the farmers there concerned in fish farming are a troubled lot. Tikait added that imports are growing there whereas many fishermen have misplaced their lives in Bengal.

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    He stated they’re planning to go to West Bengal not as a result of it’s a poll-bound state, however to additional unfold consciousness concerning the farmers’ situation.

    Tikait additionally stated {that a} mahapanchayat might be held in West Bengal within the coming days.

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  • Rakesh Tikait responds to Haryana Congress chief’s ‘liquor’ comment

    Image Source : PTI Rakesh Tikait responds to Haryana Congress chief’s ‘liquor’ comment
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait has dismissed the remarks by a Haryana Congress chief whereby she requested get together staff to donate cash and liquor to farmers’ who’re protesting at Delhi border factors in opposition to the brand new agri legal guidelines. Tikait stated that such leaders don’t have anything to do with the “farmers’ movement”.
    “What is the use of liquor here? I don’t know why she’s making such comments. Such people don’t have anything to do with the movement. It’s wrong and shouldn’t be done,” Tikait informed reporters on Congress’ Vidya Rani’s controversial assertion.
    “They can distribute whatever they want to in their (Congress) own movement,” he added.
    Earlier on Monday, Congress chief Vidya Rani requested her get together staff to distribute alcohol amongst different issues to “support” farmers’ agitation. Rani made the remark in the course of the Congress’ govt meet in Jind.

    “We should help them. Be it money, vegetables, liquor – we can contribute as we like and strengthen this agitation. It is not a movement of farmers only but all of us,” Rani was heard saying in a 80-second video, which went viral on the web. 
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    On Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s go to to Uttar Pradesh for the second time in every week to deal with Kisan panchayat, Tikat stated, “If she is going to the panchayat then who are we to stop them, everyone should hold panchayats. Priyanka is sitting in Delhi, so what can she do here only? She must visit the village.”
    “We are not conducting mahapanchayats. The (political leaders) must be holding their own panchayats, not our farmers unions,” he added. 

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  • Won’t let govt sit in peace until farmers’ calls for met: Rakesh Tikait

    Image Source : PTI Won’t let govt sit in peace until farmers’ calls for met: Rakesh Tikait`
    Upping the ante in opposition to the federal government, Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait on Sunday stated they will not let it sit in peace until the farmers’ calls for are met. Addressing a farmers’ “mahapanchayat” on the Indri grain market within the district, Tikait stated the 40 leaders spearheading the agitation in opposition to the Centre’s farm legal guidelines will tour your complete nation to drum up help for the stir.
    “Till the time the government does not decide in our favour, talks to the committee (spearheading the agitation) and does not agree to the demands, we won’t let it sit in peace,” Tikait stated, demanding the repeal of the legal guidelines.
    He as soon as once more reiterated that the Centre’s farm legal guidelines “will finish the public distribution system.” The legal guidelines is not going to solely impression farmers but in addition small merchants, every day wagers and different sections, he stated.
    Questioning the federal government’s intention behind bringing the legal guidelines, Tikait stated, “Godowns were built first and the laws came later. Don’t farmers know these laws are in favour of big corporates? Business on hunger will not be allowed in this country.”
    Tikait reiterated that the “panch” (leaders spearheading the stir) and the “manch” (stage) will stay the identical.

    “Whatever decisions are taken by the committee are acceptable to all. Farmers of the country stand behind it,” Tikait stated.
    Apart from Tikait, farmer leaders Balbir Singh Rajewal, Darshan Pal and Haryana BKU chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni had been additionally current on the event.
    Rajewal stated farmers have been protesting for months however the authorities just isn’t listening to their calls for. Pal stated over 200 farmers have sacrificed their lives in the course of the agitation stated their sacrifice is not going to go in useless.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter visits farmers’ protest web site in Ghazipur

    Image Source : ANI There is a lot fact in your cause that it speaks for itself. I’m with fact and can all the time stand by it: Tara Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi at Ghazipur.
    Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee on Saturday visited Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border to increase assist to the farmers’ motion towards the Centre’s contentious farm legal guidelines, in response to a BKU assertion.

    The 84-year-old Bhattacharjee, who can be the chairperson of National Gandhi Museum, exhorted farmers to stay peaceable of their protest and urged the federal government to “take care” of the farming neighborhood.

    She was joined by Gandhi Smarak Nidhi chairman Ramchandra Rahi, All-India Sarv Seva Sangha managing trustee Ashok Saran, Gandhi Smarak Nidhi director Sanjay Singha and National Gandhi Museum director A Annamalai.

    “We have not come here as part of any political programme. We have come here today for the farmers, who have fed all of us our whole life,” Bhattacharjee stated, in response to the assertion by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), the farmers union main the protest.

    “We are because of you all. In the benefit of farmers lies the benefit of the country and all of us,” she was quoted as telling the protesters, who’re tenting at Ghazipur since November with a requirement that the Centre repeal the three new farm legal guidelines and make a brand new one to ensure minimal assist worth (MSP) for crops.

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    She recalled that the primary combat for independence from the British rule in 1857 had additionally began from Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh.

    Bhattacharjee stated she has come to the protest web site to hope for the farmers, in response to the assertion issued by BKU’s media in-charge Dharmendra Malik.

    “I want that whatever happens, farmers should be benefitted by it. Nobody is unaware of the hard work that the farmers do and it is not to be said again that in the benefit of farmers lies the benefit of our country, and all of us,” she stated.

    Thousands of farmers are tenting at Delhi’s border factors of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur since November in protest towards the three farm legal guidelines enacted by the Centre in September.

    They declare that the brand new legal guidelines and lack of a legislation on MSP would harm their livelihoods whereas the federal government has maintained that the legislations are pro-farmer. The deadlock continues even after 11 rounds of formal talks between the federal government and farmers.

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