Farmers Movement Archive

Will never allow Centre’s operation clean to succeed: Rakesh Tikait

Tribune News ServiceBathinda, April 24Sanyukt Kisam Morcha leader Rakesh Kumar Tikait has said, “The Union government would be given a befitting reply if they tried to carry out operation clean.Addressing a farmers’ rally at Karandi village in Sardulgarh subdivision in Mansa district on Friday late night, Rakesh Tikait said, “We will never allow this ploy to succeed in the hands of the BJP. The farmers have been harassed since the day the BJP government came to power,” he said.Further, he said, “I have noticed that farmers in Haryana are not facing any problem in the procurement centres. In Punjab, the Union government is deliberately harassing the farmers. The BJP government at the Centre is resorting to all sorts of manoeuvres to crush the peasant movement.”He said, “If the black laws are not withdrawn the Centre will have to pay a heavy price. I will go first to thank the Central Government and would pay homage at the Golden Temple.”On this occasion the Chairman of Zila Parishad Mansa and Congress leader Bikram Singh Mofar said that “if the Union Government tried to suppress the farmers’ agitation by using force, we will take a large number of tractor trolleys from our area to reach the protest site to support the farmers’ struggle”.Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was honoured with a cart. He also commended the contribution made by Bikram Mofar in farmer agitation by setting up a permanent tent and arranging rations from the area and taking the farmers to Delhi.Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was also felicitated by the farmers of the area at the residence of Chaudhary Anoop Singh Karandi of Karandi village.Hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi’s borders since November of last year against the Centre’s agriculture reform laws.The protesting farmers are demanding the repeal of the three laws along with a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) for their produce.More than 10 rounds of talks between the central government and the farmers’ union have failed to end the deadlock.

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2021-04-24