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Protesters will not return house until settlement is reached: Rakesh Tikait

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Image Source : PTI Protesters will not return house until settlement is reached: Rakesh Tikait
BKU chief Rakesh Tikait on Friday revealed plans by farmer leaders to carry conferences in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s house state Gujarat and stated protesters in Delhi is not going to return house till the Centre reaches an “agreement” with them. It was not instantly clear if the comment made at a “mahapanchayat” right here was a climb down from Tikait’s earlier assertion that there can be no “ghar wapsi” until the legal guidelines are withdrawn.
The authorities has been telling farmer unions to contemplate an choice aside from the whole repeal of the legal guidelines.
He stated the federal government must speak with the farmer unions’ committee spearheading the agitation in opposition to the legal guidelines.
“This agitation will continue until the Government of India talks to the committee and arrives at an agreement. Till that time, farmers will not return home,” he stated addressing a “mahapanchayat” organised by the “Dalal Khap 84” close to the Tikri border.
He additionally claimed the agitation is unfold throughout the nation and never restricted to Punjab, Haryana or Uttar Pradesh as being projected by some.
More “mahapanchayats” can be held in coming days, he stated, including that they are going to go to Gujarat as properly.
Tikait alleged that farmers from Gujarat had been being pressured to not lend assist to the agitation.
“If anyone from Gujarat wants to come here to support the agitation and if it is found they are coming, police are being send to their homes,” he alleged.
“We will hold meetings in Gujarat and other states,” he stated.

Tikait additionally stated the “business on hunger” is not going to be allowed and people wanting will probably be “driven out” of the nation.
Hitting out on the farm legal guidelines, he claimed these will result in the dismantling of the minimal assist value (MSP) and exploitation of farmers, from whom massive firms will procure their produce at cheaper charges after which retailer it in godowns.
Big godowns can be constructed, which can be barricaded on comparable strains like those close to the protest websites on the Delhi borders, he stated.
Without naming anybody, he stated makes an attempt have been made to divide the farmers’ stir.
“They tried to divide us on the strains of Punjab and Haryana, then small and large farmers,” he stated.
“We have said that the three laws are not acceptable to farmers and should be rolled back. But how will they take back these when godowns were built first and laws were framed later,” he stated.
“They did business of temple, religion and feelings. Now, they want to do the business on hunger,” Tikait alleged.
The BKU chief from Uttar Pradesh has been tenting at Ghazipur on the Delhi-UP border for over two months in opposition to the central legal guidelines enacted in September.
The Centre has been saying these legal guidelines will usher in new farming applied sciences and free the farmers from the clutches of middlemen. The farmers have been rejecting these claims, saying these legal guidelines will hurt their curiosity. 
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