Tractor Rally Not A Bad Thing, Will Hold One In Delhi On Aug 15: Rakesh Tikait

Mumbai: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has supported the call given by the farmers of Jind, Haryana to carry out a tractor rally on Independence Day, saying that it is not a “bad thing”.

Tikait said, “Tractor rally is not a bad thing. People of Jind (Haryana) are revolutionaries. They have taken the right decision to organize a tractor parade on August 15. Don’t know what Samyukt Kisan Morcha decides.”

“It will be a moment of pride to see the tractor parade with national flags mounted on them. It builds a spirit of nationalism,” he added.

Asking the Haryana government to let farmers do the flag hoisting in Jind, on Independence Day, Tikait said, “People of Jind are revolutionaries, if they have said they won’t let ministers unfurl the national flag in their villages, then they won’t. What will the ministers do by hoisting flags? Let farmers do it on August 15.”

At Jantar Mantar, BKU leaders are sitting with the farmers who started the sit-in in the form of farmers’ parliament. Every day two hundred farmers visit the site and hold dharna from 11 am to 5 pm. This is yet another attempt to intensify their nearly eight-month-long protest against three agriculture laws passed by Parliament in September last year.

Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 last year demanding the scrapping of three agri 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.

Several rounds of talks have taken place between the Centre and the farmers but the impasse remains.

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