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‘November 27 onwards we are going to encompass Delhi with tractors, will convert govt workplaces into farmer mandis’: Rakesh Tikait

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Bhartiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait has issued yet one more risk to the Government of India. Giving an ultimatum until November 26, Tikait in a Tweet stated the protest will solely intensify thereafter. 
“The central government has time till November 26, after that from November 27, farmers will reach the border by tractors to occupy the protests sites around Delhi and strengthen the tents,” Tikait Tweeted in Hindi. 
केंद्र सरकार को 26 नवंबर तक का समय है, उसके बाद 27 नवंबर से किसान गांवों से ट्रैक्टरों से दिल्ली के चारों तरफ आंदोलन स्थलों पर बॉर्डर पर पहुंचेगा और पक्की किलेबंदी के साथ आंदोलन और आन्दोलन स्थल पर तंबूओं को मजबूत करेगा।#FarmersProtest— Rakesh Tikait (@RakeshTikaitBKU) November 1, 2021
‘Will turn govt offices into mandis’
The so-called farmer chief additional threatened to show authorities workplaces into mandis if the federal government tried to dismantle their protest websites and tents. 
“If there is an attempt to forcibly remove the farmers from the borders, then we will turn government offices across the country into Galla Mandi,” Tikait declared in one other Tweet. 
किसानों को अगर बॉर्डरो से जबरन हटाने की कोशिश हुई तो वे देश भर में सरकारी दफ्तरों को गल्ला मंडी बना देंगे ।#FarmersProtest— Rakesh Tikait (@RakeshTikaitBKU) October 31, 2021
“If the farmers fail to sell their produce in mandis at a fair price, then, what better place to do so than the government offices?” he stated moreover, as quoted by DNA. 
In a press release to the Hindustan Times, Tikait claimed, “Protest is a constitutional right. Farmers have been peacefully camping at the borders. If that right is taken away, then we will turn all main offices in districts across the country into grain markets. Our farmers are prepared to do it.”
Set to promote crops at parliament
As the Delhi police on Friday started eradicating the barricades from the Ghazipur (Delhi-Uttar Pradesh) border, Tikait claimed that it was a transfer to dislodge the farmers’ protest.
The BKU chief has been issuing threats after threats since then. While chatting with Zee News, Rakesh Tikait had stated, “They are removing the walls that they have built. Once the roads open, we will go to the Parliament to sell our crops. We will go once the roads open. We will do what the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) decides. We also wanted to go to Delhi for the past 11 months but they did not allow us to go. Our tractors will reach Delhi first.”
It is crucial to notice that the Government of India has held 11 rounds of discussions with varied farmer unions, nevertheless, the unions have demanded an entire rollback of the three Farm Laws leaving no scope for amendments or negotiations, and with out even declaring which elements of the farm legal guidelines are problematic for them.