"Ceasefire By Them, Not Us": Farmer Leader Rakesh Tikait On Agitation
NDTV
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should give a clear answer on the demand for a law guaranteeing Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday hit out at the government, accusing it of trying to divide the farmers, and said it should talk to them to resolve their issues or else "we are not going away".
The farmer leader also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should give a clear answer on the demand for a law guaranteeing Minimum Support Price (MSP) that he had "supported" when he was the chief minister.
"It took one year for us to make them understand. We said our things in our own language but those sitting in shining bungalows in Delhi had another language," Mr Tikait said, addressing a mahapanchayat called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM).
"They understood in one year that these laws are harmful and took the laws back. They did the right thing by withdrawing the laws but tried to divide farmers by saying that they failed to make some people understand the laws. We are some people," Mr Tikait said.
