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Bhartiya Kisan Union’s Rakesh Tikait attends Kisan mahapanchayat in Jabalpur district

Bhopal: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) supremo Rakesh Tikait addressed yet another Kisan Mahapanchayat, this time in Sehora town near Jabalpur on Monday. Protesting against the three new agriculture laws, it was the third such gathering in Madhya Pradesh in the last 10 days. The other two were held at Sheopur, where the parliamentary seat of Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar is located, and Rewa in Vindhya Pradesh. All three events witnessed a large number of farmers which discomforted the state government, said Anil Yadav, state general secretary of the BKU in MP. In Sehora, Rakesh Tikait said , “There is no government in India. Corporates are running the show. Over five lakh farmers have been sitting on agitation for the last many months but there is no one to take cognizance of the situation.” He added that there was an “unannounced ban” on the media to show the agitation. Tikait said that the state government in MP also makes huge claims and said there was no agitation among the farmers in the state. He then pointed out at the crowd under the tents and said, “They have shown that the government has been lying”. The BKU alleged that a night before the Mahapanchayat “BJP goons threatened the organizations” and vandalized the venue.

The Times of India

2021-03-16

Bhopal