Farmers Movement Archive

2021 is year of protests, says Rakesh Tikait

Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait told farmers on Saturday, “2021 is the year of agitations. Keep your tractor ready with tent and edibles.” Addressing a massive kisan mahapanchayat in the Gonda area of Aligarh district, Mr. Tikait said the fact that large corporate entities had built godowns even before the three contentious farm laws were passed showed that they were in the know of things. “It seems the corporates have sneaked into the PM’s office. We have to take them out,” he said. “What we are seeing right now,” the BKU leader said, “is not a BJP government but company raj.” Tractor and Twitter Appealing to young farmers to use “both tractor and Twitter to spread the message against the farm laws”, he said the mainstream media is being censored and youngsters had to put across the pain of farmers through social media. “Land is something that is dearer to a farmer than even his son. In this region, nobody passes on ownership of land to his progeny before his death. Now companies are eyeing something that is so dear to you,” he said.

The Hindu

2021-04-04

Ghaziabad