Farmers protest ‘This movement will continue, farmers won’t back off,’ says BKU leader Rakesh Tikait – India TV

Reiterating that the farmers won’t back off, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait stated that they will preserve urgent their calls for, together with a authorized assure of minimal help value (MSP). Besides a authorized assure of minimal help value (MSP) for crops, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pension for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21. UPDATES

“This movement will continue, a solution can be found only through dialogue… SKM (Samyukt Kisan Morcha) will meet tomorrow and decide what to do,” he stated.

Tikait stated farmers will stage dharnas in 4 states — Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttarakhand — to press their calls for.

Haryana Police fired tear fuel shells to disperse protesting farmers after they moved in the direction of the barricades on the Shambhu border close to Ambala. Police have additionally launched a collection of video clips of a number of farmers purportedly pelting stones and making an attempt to impress the safety personnel on the Shambhu border.

There had been clashes between the farmers and Haryana Police personnel on the primary two days of the protest as nicely.