Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday said that farmers' protest against the Centre’s three farm laws will not be divided and the agitating farmers will breach barricades in Delhi again. He added that as a part of the protest farmers will sell their produce at the parliament complex.
“They tried to split us into the lines of caste and religion. But we will not be divided. You will have to march towards Delhi with your tractors. You will have to sell our produce at Assemblies, Collectorate and the Parliament. The Prime Minister said you can sell your produce anywhere. We will sell it anywhere, even in Parliament. There can be no bigger mandi than the Parliament,” said Tikait while addressing a Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur’s Vidhyadhar Nagar stadium on Tuesday.
Hitting out at the government, the BKU leader said: "PM Modi said farmers can sell crops anywhere. We will prove it by selling at State Assemblies, Collectors' offices and the Parliament. No mandi can be better than Parliament."
Meanwhile, on Sunday during the protest at Delhi’s borders, Tikait had advised farmers in Karnataka to organise a protest in the state similar to that of Delhi and 'gherao' (surround) Bengaluru from all sides.
"This fight will go on for a long time. We need to start such protests in every city until these three black laws are taken back and the law on MSP is not brought. You need to run a protest in Karnataka," the BKU leader had said while addressing a farmers' meeting in Shivamogga.
He added that the day the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha gives a date, people from Rajasthan should surround Delhi. The national capital has been surrounded from all sides and the Kisan movement has spread to the entire country. “You will have to rise. Especially our youth, it is your responsibility to take this movement forward,” said Tikait, who, of late, has been addressing several Kisan Mahapanchayats across Rajasthan.
The country can be saved only when slogans of Jai Ram, Jai Bhim, Allahu Akbar and Har Har Mahadev are chanted, added Tikait. He also appointed Raja Ram Meel, president of the Rajasthan Jat Mahasabha, as the Rajasthan president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union.
The other speakers at the rally included Bhim Army founder Chandra Shekhar Azad and Yogendra Yadav. Azad said that to get freedom, farmers, labourers and all those who love the country will have to unite. Citing the current prices of food crops such as moong, wheat and bajra in Rajasthan, Yadav said farmers are forcibly selling their produce at much lower prices than the minimum support price (MSP) fixed by the government.
Farmers have been protesting at the different border of Delhi since November 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.