Rakesh Tikait said it took almost one year to make the "government understand that that the farm laws will harm the farmers, workers and shopkeepers of the country".
Asaduddin Owaisi while addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki on Sunday demanded the repeal of CAA and NRC and warned that protestors will 'turn streets into Shaheen Bagh' if the two laws are not scrapped.
Tikait said that issues like cases against farmers, electricity bills, MSP guarantee need to be resolved before the conclusion of the agitation.
The Congress and Left parties have also demanded that a law should be enacted on the MSP guarantee while repealing the three laws from last year.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about repealing the farm laws on Friday. But now the biggest question is, will the farmers now go back to their homes? Rakesh Tikait had a special conversation with India TV on the same. Watch this episode of Muqabla with Ajay Kumar.
In his address to the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, PM Narendra Modi said the three farm laws will be repealed in the coming Winter session of Parliament.
Rakesh Tikait also stressed that the government should talk to farmers over the issue of minimum support price (MSP) of crops and other matters.
Rakesh Tikait said a 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' will be held in Lucknow on November 22, four days ahead of the anti-farm law protest at Delhi borders completing one year.
Farmers have been protesting at different sites since November 26 last year against the three enacted farm laws. Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains.
The Delhi Police on Thursday evening started removing the barricades and concertina wires it had put in place at the anti-farm laws protest site at Tikri Border on Delhi-Rohtak highway.
Earlier on Thursday, the Delhi Police had begun removing barricades placed at the Tikri and Ghazipur borders where farmers have been protesting against the Centre's three farm laws.
The Delhi Police on Thursday started removing barricades put up at the Tikri, Ghazipur borders where thousands of farmers are protesting against the Centre’s three farm laws, news agency ANI reported. Watch what Rakesh tikait has to say on this.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh have been agitating at three Delhi border points -- Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur -- since last November against the three farm laws. Over 10 rounds of talks between farmers and the government have failed to break the deadlock.
The body of Lakhbir Singh, who was killed by Nihangs, was found on Friday tied to a barricade at the Singhu border with a hand chopped off and multiple wounds caused by sharp-edged weapons.
Speaking on today's 'rail roko' protest, Rakesh Tikait said that such kind of events will keep taking place till government listens to them and arrest MoS Ajay Mishra, whose son is an accused in Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident.
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait had an exclusive interview with India TV LIVE from Ghazipur Border. Talking with India TV anchor Meenakshi Joshi, Tikait discussed various topics ranging from farmers' protest, Lakhimpur violence and how the farmers hope for the arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra. Watch the full interview.
Rakesh Tikait has said that Union Minister Home Ajay Mishra should be arrested for his role in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
On Friday, a corpse of a man, with hands and legs chopped off, was found hanging on a police barricade at the farmers' protest site near the Singhu border, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hansraj.
Tikait had also said that the protest against the Lakhimpur violence would intensify if Ajay Mishra was not removed from his post.
Lakhimpur Kheri: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined a large gathering of farmers from various states in Tikonia village as part of last prayers in honour of the four deceased farmers and a journalist, who were killed in the recent violence.
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