Giving out a fresh warning to the government, Rakesh Tikait, national spokesperson of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), who is spearheading the farmers protest at Ghazipur border in the Delhi-NCR region, on Friday told that the protesting farmers will break the barricades if they are put in place during the next ‘andolan’. Tweeting in Hindi Tikait said that there should be no barricading during their next march, otherwise they will be broken.
Disclosing other details of future action relating to the protest against the farm laws, Tikait said the tractors are farmers tanks. For the long-distance, a strategy that would include 1 village, 1 tractor and 15 farmers, have been planned to prepare for the unsettled protest, he said. Tikait who has a stronghold in the Jat community has accused the Modi government of being a puppet of the corporates, saying that the government is doing things that the businessmen are telling to do.
ट्रैक्टर किसानों का टैंक है। लंबी लड़ाई के लिए एक गांव, एक ट्रैक्टर 15 किसान और 10 दिन चाहिए, यह फार्मूला है। कारों से आंदोलन नहीं चला करते ।
— Rakesh Tikait (@RakeshTikaitBKU) March 5, 2021
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Tikait's comments come days after he said that the government's silence indicates it is planning steps against farmers' agitation. He said that the central government will have to come forward with a proposal for talks to resume negotiations with the protesting farmers. He also alleged that it was the government that created the violence during the tractor rally on Republic Day.
11 rounds of talks have taken place between the farmer’s unions and the government, but both parties are firm at not giving up. Agriculture minister Tomar has said that the government is ready to resume talks, but the farmer leaders have asked the Centre to step forward.