Farmers’ agitation won’t conclude earlier than October, says Rakesh Tikait

Image Source : PTI New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait having his meal at Ghazipur border throughout farmers’ ongoing protest towards the brand new farm legal guidelines, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021.
Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday stated the slogan of the protesting farmers is ‘kanoon wapsi nahi, to ghar wapsi nahi’ (no returning until the farm legal guidelines are rolled again). Speaking additional, Tikait stated the agitation won’t finish earlier than October. “This agitation will not conclude before October, it will not end anytime soon: Bhartiya Kisan Union (Arajnaitik) leader Rakesh Tikait,” stated Tikait. His assertion comes quickly after assembly Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut, who paid a go to to Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, the place he met protesting farmers and expressed solidarity. 
Commenting on Raut’s go to, Rakesh Tikait right now stated, “There’s no problem if Opposition is coming to support us but it should not be politicised. We can’t do anything if leaders come.”
“The traffic movement has not been blocked by farmers, it is because of the police barricading,” Tikait added. 
Previously leaders of Shiromani Akali Dal, Aam Aadmi Party, Congress, Rashtriya Lok Dal, Samajwadi Party, amongst others, visited Ghazipur, which has turn out to be the tenting floor for BKU-led protestors for over two months now. 

Of late, hundreds have converged in help of the continuing stir towards the contentious new farm legal guidelines.
Earlier on January 31, Tikait had stated the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) had not allowed political events within the motion towards new central farm legal guidelines however took political help “only after the democracy was mocked” at protest websites.
Image Source : PTINew Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait together with farmers leaders through the ongoing protest towards the brand new farm legal guidelines, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb. 02, 2021.

Meanwhile, concertina wires unfold additional across the UP Gate (Ghazipur border) on Tuesday, whereas multi-layered barricading of iron and concrete constructions together with nails studded on roads made certain no protestor motion in the direction of Delhi.
The web additionally remained suspended on the protest web site.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting on the Delhi 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 the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
The protesting farmers have expressed the apprehension that these legal guidelines would pave the best way for the dismantling of the minimal help value (MSP) system, leaving them on the “mercy” of massive firms.
However, the federal government has maintained that the brand new legal guidelines will convey higher alternatives to farmers and introduce new applied sciences in agriculture.

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