After Parliament gherao threat, Tikait asks farmers to keep tractors ready to reach Delhi

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday asked the farmers to 'keep their tractors ready and fueled' so that they are prepared to come to Delhi anytime. Asking them to 'continue working in their fields', the BKU leader further fearmongered over the Farm Laws, claiming that the Centre was attempting to 'lock their grains' inside a locker and unleash a 'business of hunger'.

"This is my appeal to farmers that they should continue to work in their fields and also keep their tractors ready with their tanks full of oil as they may have to come to Delhi anytime," he said.

"You formulate laws without asking us, and then ask us to point out the shortcomings. When the entire laws are black then they should be taken back. They (Centre) want to lock grains inside a locker, want to do business on hunger in the country, then that will not happen," Rakesh Tikait added.

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Tikait threatens to 'gherao' Parliament with 40 lakh tractors

The farmer leaders have been regularly holding massive Mahapanchayats across the country with political parties and key opposition leaders such as Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal lashing out at the Centre for their 'indifference' to the farmers. Tikait himself, while addressing a Mahapanchayat in Rajasthan's Sikar earlier this week, threatened to 'gherao' the Parliament with 40 lakh tractors, if the laws were not repealed. 

With Delhi's borders thinning amid the 'Kisan Mahapanchayats', Tikait has said that the 'dharna' at the borders would also continue alongside the panchayats since the Centre had still not repealed the three Farm Laws. 

"It is necessary to hold Mahapanchayats across the country because this is the problem of the entire nation. Dharna will also continue alongside these panchayats. As of now, we have planned programs till March 24. We will travel across the country," Tikait said. 

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(With Agency Inputs)