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1 Farmers at Ghazipur border during their ongoing protest against new farm laws, in New Delhi on Sunday. Tribune photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui
Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, January 31
First Muzaffarnagar, yesterday Mathura, today Baraut (Baghpat) and tomorrow another ‘mahapanchayat’ is expected in Bijnor to mobilise support for farmers’ agitation against the three contentious farm laws in Western Uttar Pradesh.
Farmers’ agitation is gaining ground and strength despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reach-out and open offer to suspend the three laws. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha will also unveil its nationwide programme tomorrow in the wake of the happenings, including arrests, following the January 26 Delhi violence.
Prominent Gurjar leader Madan Bhaiyya extends community s support to farmers’ protest
Prominent Gurjar leader Madan Bhaiyya extends community s support to farmers’ protest
As the farmers’ protest at Delhi-UP border continues to grow with more supporters joining the agitation following Rakesh Tikait’s clarion call, now prominent Gurjar leader Madan Bhaiyya has extended the Gurjar community’s support as well.
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Gurjar leader Madan Bhaiyya has extended the community s support to Bharatiya Kisan Union. (PTI)
As the farmers’ protest at Delhi-UP border continues to grow with more supporters joining the agitation following Rakesh Tikait’s clarion call, now prominent Gurjar leader Madan Bhaiyya has extended the Gurjar community’s support as well.
Rakesh Tikait
NOIDA: The Bharatiya Kisan Union-Lokshakti, one of the outfits that had approached the Supreme Court against the farm laws, has joined the protest at Ghazipur, with the members saying they will not let political representatives “beat up” the agitators.
The outfit members had been protesting at Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida for the past two months. But they vacated the place on Thursday night and around 250 of them have reached Ghazipur to join the protesters there. According to the farmers, they were upset after BKU-Tikait leader Rakesh Tikait burst into tears at Ghazipur on Thursday night.
BKU-Lokshakti national president Shyoraj Singh said: “I have directed our supporters to reach Ghazipur and those near Muzaffarnagar should reach the mahapanchayat being held there. BJP goons were at Ghazipur. They wanted to threaten and beat up farmers. Loni MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar disturbed the atmosphere, which saddened Rakesh Tikait. If the local administration takes acti
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1 BKU president Naresh Tikait, along with other leaders, during a âmahapanchayatâ organised to mobilise support for the farmersâ agitation at Delhi borders against Centreâs farm reform laws, in Muzaffarnagar on Friday. PTI photo
Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, January 30
Baghpat, Sonepat and Rohtak they may be in different states (Uttar Pradesh and Haryana) but members of the ‘Jat’ community of the region share strong socio-cultural ties/bonding called “roti-beti ka rishta”.
What the events of the past few days in the ongoing farmers’ agitation, especially those revolving around BKU leader Rakesh Tikait, have done is strengthened those bonds.
Perhaps, this is the second time the BJP leadership miscalculated the agitation, the first being underestimating farmers and their agitation.
Villagers bring food, water for Rakesh Tikait as BKU digs heels at Ghazipur border
A little boy from a Ghaziabad village reached the protest with a tiffin filled with homemade parathas and pickle along with water.
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NEW DELHI: Villagers brought water in clay pots and home-made food for Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday in a show of support for the ongoing stir against the new farm laws, even as local authorities sent tankers of drinking water and mobile toilets at the protest site.
Tikait urged the government to restore internet services, which have been banned by the Centre at protest sites on Delhi s borders Saturday.