Rakesh Tikait
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Ready to resume talks with Centre over farm laws: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait
India | May 24, 2021, 09:31 AM ISTThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha had on Friday had written to PM Narendra Modi, urging resumption of talks over the three farm laws they have been agitating against since November last year.
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Protesting farmers in Delhi to celebrate Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Diwas today
India | May 01, 2021, 08:22 AM ISTFarmers protesting against the Centre's three farm laws in the national capital, will be celebrating May 1st as Mazdoor Kisan Ekta Diwas.
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Rakesh Tikait gets vaccinated in hospital near protest site
India | Apr 13, 2021, 07:11 PM ISTBhartiya Kisaan Union Spokesperson and Leader Rakesh Tikait recently got his vaccination done at a hospital near the Delhi-UP border.
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Farmers ready to talk if govt invites, no change in demands: Rakesh Tikait
India | Apr 12, 2021, 06:26 AM ISTTikait's remarks came in response to Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij urging Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to resume talks with protesting farmers amid the coronavirus scare looming large.
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Rakesh Tikait accuses Centre for attack on his convoy
News | Apr 03, 2021, 02:50 PM ISTA day after attack on Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait's convoy, he blamed Centre for the incident.
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Rakesh Tikait's convoy attacked in Rajasthan, farmer leader blames BJP
India | Apr 02, 2021, 10:53 PM ISTFarmer leader Rakesh Tikait's convoy was allegedly attacked in Alwar on Friday. He alleged that the BJP men were behind the attack.
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Will sell produce in Parliament: Rakesh Tikait at Jaipur Kisan Mahapanchayat
News | Mar 24, 2021, 12:54 PM ISTNational spokesperson of Bhartiya Kisan Union Rakesh Tikait slammed Centre by saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that farmers can sell crops anywhere, we will prove it by selling at the Parliament complex.
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Farmers may have to enter Delhi, breach barricades again: Tikait ahead of Bharat Bandh
India | Mar 24, 2021, 01:43 PM ISTEarlier on Sunday, during the protest at Delhi's borders, Tikait had suggested that farmers in Karnataka should organise a protest in the state similar to that of Delhi and 'gherao' (surround) Bengaluru from all sides.
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Conspiracy being hatched to snatch away lands from farmers: Tikait
News | Mar 21, 2021, 09:26 AM ISTBhartiya Kisan Union National spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that conspiracy is being hatched to snatch away land from farmers. He said that many more laws will be passed to make it impossible for common people and farmers to buy milk, electricity, seeds and pesticides. "A big conspiracy is being hatched to snatch away land from farmers. Big corporates are in search of your land. Youths will be unemployed if land is grabbed from farmers. Farmers will be given loans through Kisan Credit Cards taking land as collateral. When you fail to repay the loan, they will take away your land," he said. Tikait was addressing a Mahapanchayat in Shivamogga.
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Make 'Delhi' in Bengaluru, gherao city from all sides: Tikait to farmers in Karnataka
India | Mar 21, 2021, 07:09 AM ISTBharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait suggested farmers in Karnataka should organise a protest in the state similar to that of Delhi and gherao Bengaluru from all sides.
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Rakesh Tikait demands vaccination of protesting farmers, jail inmates
News | Mar 18, 2021, 05:26 PM ISTBharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait demanded COVID-19 vaccine jab for protesting farmers and jail inmates.
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Vaccination should be done at protest sites: Rakesh Tikait
India | Mar 18, 2021, 01:45 PM ISTBharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said that the government should open a vaccination centre at the protest sites.
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Rakesh Tikait warns of blocking Delhi-Noida border again amid farm stir
India | Mar 16, 2021, 04:18 PM ISTBharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday warned of blocking the Delhi-Noida border, amid the ongoing farm protest. Rakesh Tikait along with other farmer-leaders have been camping at Ghazipur border near Delhi for months now, demanding the repeal of new reforms in the agriculture sector.
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Tractors will again enter Delhi, new mandi will be opened in parliament: Rakesh Tikait
India | Mar 14, 2021, 07:16 AM ISTTikait said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated farmers can sell their crops outside the mandi."I feel mandi in parliament will be the best. Trader sitting inside, farmer outside.
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'Govt in Kolkata, we will also go there to speak with farmers': Rakesh Tikait
News | Mar 07, 2021, 08:41 PM ISTBKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said farmers' union will go to Kolkata on March 13 to speak to farmers as "Govt has gone to the state".
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Farmers' protest to continue till rollback of three agri laws: Tikait
India | Mar 07, 2021, 02:22 PM ISTOn the occasion, he flagged off a tractors' rally, which, he said, will travel across districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and will reach farmers'' protest site in Ghazipur on March 27.
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Rakesh Tikait to tour 5 states in March to drum up support for farmers' protest
India | Feb 28, 2021, 06:57 AM ISTTikait, the national spokesperson of the BKU and a prominent face of the farmers' protest, will begin the tour from March 1, the office-bearer said.
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Doors still open for talks Tomar on Tikait's '40 lakh tractors march' plan
News | Feb 24, 2021, 05:40 PM ISTAfter farmer leader Rakesh Tikait announced the plans for marching to Parliament with 40 lakh tractors in order to intensify pressure on the central government to withdraw the three new farm laws, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar responded by saying that the government has still left its doors opened for discussions, while also underlining the previous talks. "Government of India is committed to double farmers' income and work towards agriculture's welfare. Discussions have been held many times, if they have a point to raise even now, we are ready to discuss," Tomar told reporters in the national capital.
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40 lakh tractors will march to Parliament if farm laws not taken back, Rakesh Tikait warns
India | Feb 24, 2021, 04:52 PM ISTBharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has said that the farmers would march to the Parliament if the three agricultural laws are not taken back.
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Farmers will gherao Parliament if govt doesn't repeal farm laws, says Rakesh Tikait
News | Feb 24, 2021, 04:00 PM ISTRakesh Tikait said the protesting farmers would plough the parks near India Gate and grow crops there. Leaders of the United Front will decide the date to gherao the Parliament.