Stop pressuring supporters of farmers’ agitation: Rakesh Tikait

Tribune News Service
Rohtak, March 24

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has asked the state government not to pressure leaders and other persons who are supporting the ongoing farmers’ agitation by providing food and other materials. He was addressing a farmer mahapanchayat organised at the historical Chaubisi Chabutra in Meham town here on Wednesday.

Tikait said, “Do not harass Independent MLA from Meham Balraj Kundu through income tax raids. Otherwise, we will teach a lesson to the government departments whose officials go to Kundu’s house to pressure him”.

“MLAs and others, whether a hotelier or a petrol station owner, are being served notices or penalised for supporting protesting farmers camping at Delhi borders. They need not to be scared as the Samyukt Kisan Morcha has taken the responsibility of guarding and taking care of them. We have taken a vow to help them in every situation,” he said.

“The three farm laws will ruin the agriculture sector. The government wants industrial units to be established on agricultural land,” he said.

He claimed that the government policies would force farmers to abandon their land so that industries could be established on it. He also appealed to the youth to join the agitation.

Tikait said that instead of giving the minimum support price to the farmers, the government was providing credit cards with an intention to trap them.