Vaccination should be done at protest sites: Rakesh Tikait
India | March 18, 2021 13:45 ISTBharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said that the government should open a vaccination centre at the protest sites.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said that the government should open a vaccination centre at the protest sites.
Bharatiya 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.
Tikait 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.
BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said farmers' union will go to Kolkata on March 13 to speak to farmers as "Govt has gone to the state".
On 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.
Tikait, 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.
After 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.
Bharatiya 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.
Rakesh 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.
Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been protesting at Delhi's borders for over two months demanding rollback of three farm laws.
Rakesh 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.
"He is the last king of looters (luteron ka badshah). He has to be forced out of Delhi," Rakesh Tikait said without naming anyone at a "kisan mahapanchayat" in Nohar of Hanumangarh.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and west UP are camping at Delhi border points of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur with a demand that the Centre repeal the three new farm laws and make a new one guaranteeing MSP for crops.
27-year-old farmer destroys crop in protest after Rakesh Tikait call.
Spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), Rakesh Tikait addressed a rally in Kharak Punia village of Hisar district in Haryana on February 18 where he said that they will harvest and protest against new farm laws together and won't end the demonstration.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has said that the farm movement would extend to the state of West Bengal in the coming days.
Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan would now lead the public outreach (Jan Sampark) campaign of the BJP, interacting with the Jat community in western UP.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has said that he will not contest elections and continue to fight for the farmers. Responding to a question asked by India TV reporter Archana Singh, Tikat said, "I have no plans to go to Parliament, instead I will work for enactment of laws for farmers' interest from road."
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has said that he will not contest elections and continue to fight for the farmers.
While talking to India TV Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said Now we will take this farmers movement to West Bengal.
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