"Time Has Come": Rakesh Tikait Warns Of Farmers' Tractor Rally In Gujarat

Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers will conduct an agitation in Gujarat using their tractors and that the time has come to gherao Gandhinagar and block roads.

Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait has threatened to start a farmers' tractor agitation in Gujarat, and said time has come to gherao the state capital Gandhinagar and also break barricades if needed. Mr Tikait claimed farmers in Gujarat were unhappy and suffering. Hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi's borders since November last year against the Centre's three agriculture reform laws. They are demanding a repeal of the three laws along with a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce. The protesting farmers took out a tractor rally in Delhi on January 26.