Farmers Movement Archive

Learn to break barricades, tractors like tanks for farmers: Tikait

Jaipur/Nagaur: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait while addressing a kisan mahapanchayat in Nagaur on Wednesday said, “The farmers (of Rajasthan) should learn to break the barricades and the tractors are like tanks for them.” He also said unless the farmers break the barricades and move forward, they won’t be able to take their movement to Delhi.He further appealed to the farmers to move towards Delhi carrying their grains on the tractors. “Be prepared to sell your grains at the Parliament where the MSP/rate was fixed,” he said.“Your tractors have been stopped. The parking area is about 2 kilometre away. Unless you (farmers of Rajasthan) break the barricades and move forward, you won’t be able to take your movement to Delhi. The strength of the farmers should be four times that of the barricades. Learn to break the barricading. There should not be barricading anywhere in the movement. Some of them are masters of breaking the barricades. Could anyone break the barricades in Delhi just by reading the Ramayan? The tractors are like tanks for the farmers. This movement can’t be led sitting inside your cars,” said Tikait.“At least 15 persons should get on one tractor from one village and be prepared to be there (in Delhi) for 10 days. Load your grains on the tractor. Also pack your ration for 10 days. This is the formula of an ideal combination and only then farmers will survive,” he added. “If the police stop you, tell them that Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) has introduced a scheme and you are going to sell your grains at MSP (minimum support price) wherever it could be sold. Tell them, ‘either you buy it, or let us go to Delhi. The mandi in Delhi is the Parliament.”Tikait further said, “We don’t know how long the movement will continue. There are about 15,000 tractors near the Tikri border, but they (the central government) think the movement is over. Farmers have not gone anywhere. Thousands of people are sitting there surrounding Delhi. They even alleged that farmers are stealing electricity. We told them to give us a connection and take the bill in advance.”“Big companies like Walmart will come here and capture your farmland. The farmers will turn landless and the inflation will skyrocket. You will have to participate in the movement, set up committees in the villages and only then it will be successful,” he added.

The Times of India

2021-03-04

Jaipur