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'Will approach the Prez if needed': Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait assures unwavering support to protesting wrestlers

Jun 02, 2023, at 01:14 am

Muzaffarnagar (UP): Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait Thursday said that the final decision regarding the wrestlers' protest will be made during a meeting scheduled for Friday in Haryana.

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait joins KCR's Delhi stir against Center's paddy policy

Apr 11, 2022, at 05:52 pm

New Delhi/UNI: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday sat on a protest in Delhi against the paddy procurement policy of the central government.

Centre prepares one bill to repeal all three farm laws: Reports

Nov 23, 2021, at 02:31 am

New Delhi/IBNS: The Centre has prepared a bill to repeal all the three farm laws in the upcoming session of the Parliament, which now awaits the consent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, media reports said on Monday.

Protests will continue till all demands are met: Rakesh Tikait

Nov 23, 2021, at 12:08 am

Lucknow/UNI: The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday reiterated that the farm protests will continue till all their demands, including legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price (MSP), are met.

Will call off protest after farm laws repealed in Parliament: Rakesh Tikait

Nov 19, 2021, at 06:07 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) president Rakesh Tikait, one of the prominent farm leaders, has said the protests against the agricultural reforms will be called off only after the laws are repealed in Parliament.

'If govt can run for 5 years, so can our protest': Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait

Nov 05, 2021, at 04:11 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait celebrated Diwali at the Ghazipur protest site alongside other farm members and leaders.

Rakesh Tikait threatens to lay siege on Delhi if Centre doesn't take call on farm laws by Nov 26

Nov 01, 2021, at 09:05 pm

New Delhi/UNI: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait Monday warned the central government and said farmers will reach Delhi border in their tractors to lay siege if the government does not take any decision on the three farms laws by Nov 26.

Rakesh Tikait warns of consequences if protesting farmers 'forcibly' removed from Delhi borders

Oct 31, 2021, at 06:15 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday warned the Centre of consequences if protesters are forcibly removed from Delhi borders.

Reaction to action: Farmers' leader Tikait drops shocker over BJP workers' deaths in Lakhimpur

Oct 10, 2021, at 02:04 am

New Delhi/IBNS: In a controversial comment, farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait said the killing of two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur was a reaction to the mowing down of peasants by a SUV car of a Union Minister's son, media reports said.

Will protest outside BJP MLAs' homes tomorrow over paddy procurement: Farmer leader

Oct 02, 2021, at 03:43 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Farmers will protest outside the homes of MLAs in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Haryana and the headquarters of the district collectorate in Punjab to mount pressure for starting paddy procurement on time, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait tweeted Friday evening.

Support farmers' protest: Mamata Banerjee after meeting BKU leader Rakesh Tikait

Jun 09, 2021, at 10:50 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who is one of the chief architects behind the farmers' protest in the borders of Delhi, met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here on Wednesday.

Farmers' Protest: Rakesh Tikait to meet Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee today

Jun 09, 2021, at 04:53 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who is spearheading the farmers' protest in the borders of Delhi, will on Wednesday meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here.

'Don't vote for BJP': Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait tells people in his Nandigram Mahapanchayat

Mar 14, 2021, at 05:06 am

Nandigram/IBNS: Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, who is one of the prominent faces of the farmers' protest against the three agriculture laws, is in West Bengal to hold Mahapanchayats (public meetings) to urge people to vote against the BJP in the upcoming assembly polls.

Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait to hold Mahapanchayat in Nandigram against BJP

Mar 14, 2021, at 12:05 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait, who is leading an massive protest against Centre's three new farm laws, will hold a Mahapanchayat in West Bengal's Nandigram, where Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is contesting polls against BJP's Suvendu Adikari.