Farmers Movement Archive

Tikait dares Khattar to enter Hry villages

Rohtak: Unionist Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday dared Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to enter villages in his own state, saying farmers in the state’s rural areas were enraged over the three agro-market laws. Tikait, speaking at a mahapanchayat at Meham Chaubisi Chabutra, said they planned to sit on Haryana-Delhi borders on all corners at least till the next winter as the central government had walked away from dialogue last winter and was likely to come on the discussion table next winter. On the new legislation for recovery of damages to property, passed in the state assembly amid huge pandemonium, Tikait said the first recovery should be made from chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar who dug national highways to prevent farmers from going to Delhi on NOvember 26 last year. “Let there be recovery made for destroying public property from Khattar, let there be an FIR against him under the new bill,” he added. Tikait said their demands included repeal of three agro-market laws and a new law on ensuring MSP. On a call given for a countrywide bandh on March 26, Tikait said it was the call given by Sanyukta Kisan Morcha and he appealed to shopkeepers, citizens and transporters to support them by keeping their establishments/activities shut for a day. On his visit to poll-bound West Bengal, he said they were appealing voters there to raise the demand of MSP for their crops to the ruling national party at Centre.

The Times of India

2021-03-25

Chandigarh