There’s nothing to celebrate, one can’t say if agitation is off; farmers were humiliated, called names: Naresh Tikait
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There’s nothing to celebrate, one can’t say if agitation is off; farmers were humiliated, called names: Naresh Tikait
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Muzaffarnagar: As farmers called off their agitation against the three contentious agriculture bills after the government agreed to all their demands, including guaranteed MSP, national president of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Naresh Tikait said, “There is nothing to celebrate, and one must not think that the agitation is off. I am sad that the protest had to go on for such a long period. Farmers are not very happy, but it is okay that a settlement has happened.” “The farmers were insulted, and were called Khalistanis, Andolanjeevis, etc. More than 700 of them died. We have paid a heavy price. Agitations were held and there will be more in future, it is a good starting and is good for everyone,” he said while talking to media persons in his village Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar on Friday. Mentioning the October 3 Lakhimpur violence in which four farmers and a journalist were mowed down by convoy of Union minister Ajay Kumar Teni’s son Ashish, Tikait said, “The minister has no right to stay in government, he should be punished.”
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The Times of India
Date
2021-12-11
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Meerut