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)