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Through Agri Laws, Centre Is Killing Farmers Slowly Says Rakesh Tikait

Mumbai: Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (Arajnaitik) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday said that farmers’ agitation against the three new agricultural laws will continue till the central government meets their demands, adding that the the new agricultural laws are stifling the farmers slowly unlike COVID which will take life at a one go.

“No one questioned the yataras organised by the government. The laws made by the government are more dangerous than COVID. Pandemic will kill you in one go but the laws of the government will kill people slowly,” he said.

“The gathering at the Kisan Mahapanchayat at the Muzaffarnagar is proof that people are not satisfied with the work of the government.”

Tikait also reiterated that they would not leave the Delhi borders till “they emerge victorious”.

The ‘Kishan Mahapanchayat’ of the United Kisan Morcha was organized at the Government Inter College Ground in Muzaffarnagar.

Talking to ANI, the farmer leader said that BKU does not want to indulge in politics and is instead in favor of resolving their issues. This comes in response to Union Minister and Muzaffarnagar MP Sanjeev Balyan, who had said earlier on Sunday that the BJP would welcome him if the United Kisan Morcha (SKM) wanted to enter politics.

“We do not want to join politics. We just want the issues of farmers to be resolved. There are leaders in BJP who are supporting the farmers. The people know who are the leaders not supporting farmers, they will react according to it. Balyan should support the farmers like Varun Gandhi and Satya Pal Malik,” Tikait said.

Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 last year against the three newly enacted farm laws: Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. Farmer leaders and the Centre have held several rounds of talks but the impasse remains.

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