“There would be an escalation of protest” warned farm leader Rakesh Tikiat giving a 26 day deadline to the Modi led government. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief said that ‘if centre did not repeal the controversial agricultural laws by November 26, the protest will escalate at the Delhi border.’
The farm leaders warnings come as the one-year anniversary of the farmers' protest against the “black laws” approaches.
"The central government has time till November 26, after that from November 27, farmers will reach the border at the protest sites around Delhi by tractors from villages and strengthen the protest site with robust defences," Mr Tikait said on Twitter.
This is the farm leader's second warning to the government in two days. Mr Tikait had warned the government on Sunday that there would be repercussions if they tried to forcibly remove
the demonstrators from the Delhi borders.
Rakesh Tikait, on Sunday, warned to escalate protests and turn all government offices into "galla mandis," or grain markets, if police demolished protest sites.
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"If farmers are forcibly removed from the borders, they would turn government offices across the country into grain markets," Tikait stated in a tweet.
His Sunday warning had come after Delhi Police began dismantling barricades and concrete barriers erected by farmers at the Gazipur and Tikri protest locations on October 29. Justifying
their action of demolishing the protest site, police says that the closure of a section of roads near these sites hampered commuting and leads to traffic jams.
The segment cleared by police was closed for nearly a year after protesting farmers camped at the site.
Farmers have been protesting at the three border sites of Tikri, Singhu, and Ghazipur since November 26 last year, arguing the government's claims that the three laws passed last year are in their best interests.