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Farmers ready to talk if govt invites, no change in demands: Rakesh Tikait
Ghaziabad: Farmers protesting the contentious new farm laws are ready to talk if the Centre invites them, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said on Sunday, maintaining that the dialogue would resume where it had…
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Govt shouldn’t treat farmers’ stir like Shaheen Bagh protest: Tikait
Yamunanagar: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said the government should not treat the ongoing farmers’ agitation like last year’s protest in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and asserted that the protesters will only go…
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Won’t end farmers stir even if there is nationwide lockdown: Rakesh Tikait
Ghazipur: With the surge in coronavirus cases all over the country, the threat of the pandemic looms large over the hundreds of farmers sitting on protest at various borders of the national capital…
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait to hold meeting in West Bengal’s Nandigram
Kolkata: Amid tense electoral battle between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the former leading with chief minister Mamata Banarjee and the latter with Suvendu Adhikari, farmer leader Rakesh…
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Will go to Kolkata, urge farmers to defeat BJP in polls: Tikait
Ballia: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said he will go to Kolkata this week to urge farmers to defeat the BJP in the West Bengal Assembly elections, but claimed…
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Keep tractors ready as you may have to reach Delhi anytime: Rakesh Tikait to farmers
Shamli: Amid the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday asked the farmers to keep their tractors ready stating that they may have…
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Repeal farm laws or will march to Parliament with 40 lakh tractors: Rakesh Tikait
Sikar: Issuing a threat to the Central Government, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader, Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said if the three laws are not repealed, the farmers will march to the Parliament…
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Farmers will gherao Parliament if govt doesn’t repeal three agri laws: Tikait
Sikar: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday that if the Centre does not repeal the three new agriculture laws, the protesting farmers will gherao Parliament. He appealed to farmers to be ready…
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Won’t let govt sit in peace till farmers’ demands met: Tikait
Karnal: Upping the ante against the government, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said they won’t let it sit in peace till the farmers’ demands are met. Addressing a farmers’ “mahapanchayat”…
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Mahatma Gandhi’s grand daughter visits farmers’ protest site in Ghazipur
Ghaziabad: Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee on Saturday visited Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border to extend support to the farmers’ movement against the Centre’s contentious farm laws, according to a BKU…
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In pics: Mahapanchayat in Bahadurgarh
Jhajjar: Farmers attend a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ in support of the ongoing agitation against Centre’s farm reform laws, at Bahadurgarh in Jhajjar district, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh) Jhajjar: Farmer leader…
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Rakesh Tikait warns farmers’ protest will go on for indefinite period
Ghaziabad: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Friday said the ongoing farmers’ protest will go on for indefinite period as there is no planning regarding the duration yet. “Farmers’ protest…
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Won’t allow biz over hunger; need law on MSP: Rakesh Tikait
Ghaziabad: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said business over hunger will not be allowed in the country and once again demanded a law on minimum support price (MSP) for crops along with the repeal…
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No ‘ghar wapsi’ till farmers’ demands are met: Tikait
Charkhi Dadri: Asserting that the agitation against the Centre’s farm laws is a people’s movement that will not fail, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said there will be no “ghar…
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How BKU leader Rakesh Tikait’s emotional outburst acted as ‘elixir’ for farmers’ movement
New Delhi: The emotional speech by Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on January 28 at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh Ghazipur border acted as “elixir” for the protesting farmers, who were feeling defeated…
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Chakka jam: Unions ask protestors to be peaceful during road blockade
New Delhi/Ghaziabad: Protesting farmers will not block roads in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the nationwide ‘chakka jam’ on Saturday even as agitating unions asserted that peasants in other parts of the…
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Photos: Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jind
Jind: People climb on a tower during ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ against the new farm laws, in Jind district, Wednesday, Feb. 03, 2021. (PTI Photo) *** Local Caption *** Jind: People gather in large…
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Farmers’ protest: Tikait holds show of strength, warns govt of ‘gaddi wapsi’ demand
Jind: In a show of strength by protesting farmers, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday addressed a massive rally and warned the government it could find it difficult to stay on…
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Rakesh Tikait warns farmers’ agitation will not conclude before October
Ghaziabad: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday warned the farmers’ agitation will not conclude unless government repeals the three newly enacted agriculture laws and it may go on till…
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People in villages cried, couldn’t sleep when Tikait wept: Farmers
New Delhi: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait’s emotional outburst over the dim situation of the ongoing farmers’ agitation touched such an emotional chord with people in villages in western Uttar Pradesh that many of…
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Farmer protests intensify after Rakesh Tikait breaks down in tears at Ghazipur
Ghazipur: Hundreds of farmers arrived at the Ghazipur protesting site after Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Thursday broke down in tears, declaring that he was ready to “face bullets…
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Sanyukt Kisan Morcha press conference
New Delhi: Yogendra Yadav (L), Rakesh Tikait (2nd R) and other leaders of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha during a press conference regarding the violence in their Jan 26 tractor march, at Singhu border…
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About 25,000 tractors from UP, Uttarakhand to participate in kisan parade: Rakesh Tikait
Ghaziabad: Around 25,000 tractors from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand will participate in the ‘kisan parade’ in the national capital on January 26, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait said on Saturday. Farmers…
