New Delhi: The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait is attending seven ‘mahapanchayats’ in three states starting on Sunday.
This will intensify farmers’ protest against Centre’s three new farm laws.
The media in-charge of BKU, Dharmendra Malik, said that Rakesh Tikait will attend seven farmers’ meetings planned across Haryana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan from Sunday to garner support for ongoing stir against new farm laws.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws.
The three laws are – 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.
Tikait will go on a nationwide march to gather support from the people across the country. The Kisan Union leader, while addressing a ‘mahapanchayat’ in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh, had announced that he will go to Gujarat as part of the nationwide march against farms laws and liberate its people from the clutches of the Centre.
