Farmer leaders are very angry at farmers being stopped from going to Delhi.
Rakesh Tikait, national spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisan Union, said on Wednesday that if the government is not allowing the farmers to come to Delhi, then the farmers will also not allow them to come to the village during the elections. no
BKU demonstrated at the district headquarters in Meerut on various demands including legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP), payment of outstanding sugarcane price, withdrawal of cases registered against farmers.
Tikait himself reached the court with the farmers driving a tractor. During this time, the police had also set up barricades at many places to stop the farmers, but the farmers forcibly moved them out of the way and moved ahead.
There are nails in the village too
In response to a question regarding the government laying nails on the way to stop farmers going to Delhi, Tikait said that laying nails on the way is not appropriate under any circumstances.
If they put nails for us, we will also put nails in our village. We will also have to barricade our village. Tikait also said that if they are not allowing them to come to Delhi, then we will also not allow them to come to the village during the elections.
If they work to crush the movement then who will allow them to come to the village? There is a nail in the village also. Describing the BJP government as a government of industrialists, the BKU spokesperson said that if it was a government of farmers, a law to guarantee MSP would have been made long ago.
This is Delhi for us
When Tikait was asked why he did not join the farmers’ movement going to Delhi, he said that this is Delhi for us. Farmers of the entire country are united in support of the farmer movement. We are ready to go anywhere, let alone Delhi, for the farmers.
Tikait said that today memorandums from across the country including Meerut will be sent to the President on behalf of BKU demanding increase in sugarcane price along with MSP and implementation of the Swaminathan report. He said that if the government does not accept the demands of the farmers, there will be agitation across the country.
Further strategy will be decided
Farmers remained united and ready for agitation. The BKU leader said that there will be a meeting of the United Kisan Morcha on Thursday in which the future strategy will be decided.
BKU District President Anurag Choudhary said that today the police and administration had put up barricades at three places to stop the farmers from reaching the district headquarters, but they could not stop the farmers from reaching the District Magistrate’s office.