Stir to continue till farm laws withdrawn: Tikait

KANPUR: Chief spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisan Union Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said that “the farmers’ movement started in Delhi on November 26 will continue till the government withdraws the anti-farmer agricultural laws.”
He was speaking to reporters at the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in the Takha area of Etawah on Tuesday.
“Now the farmers’ movement is to be taken outside Punjab, Haryana to the villages of UP, Uttarakhand. It will start with the organizing of a ‘maha rally’ in Muzaffarnagar on September 5,” he said.
On the issue of sugarcane farmers, Tikait said that “nearly Rs 12,000 crore of sugarcane farmers are owed by the government. The rate of sugarcane was increased by the Akhilesh and Mayawati governments. The Yogi government has not increased any rate in four years”.
Tikait said that the farmers organization will put all its energy under the banner ‘Mission UP-Uttarakhand’ in both these states, so that every village becomes a hot spot of farmers’ movement. “In Modi-Yogi’s government, the farmer has suffered a lot. Now, the farmer will give a befitting reply against their oppression,” said Tikait further.