Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait turns teacher at Tikri border
Even as the toolkit controversy overshadows farmers agitation against the three new farm laws, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait continues to protest on Ghazipur border on the outskirts of Delhi. The Bharatiya Kisan Union leader turned teacher on Monday and attended a makeshift school at the protest site. Tikait, who has been camping at Ghazipur for past two and a half months, not only taught the children alphabets and numbers but also took stock of what they had learnt in the month-and-a-half that the school has been operating, said BKU s media in-charge, Dharmendra Malik, at a press conference.