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Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait (Image: ANI)
Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait threatened to block the Ghazipur border if the farmers from the 2 states weren’t allowed to be part of the agitation.
- PTI Ghaziabad
- Last Updated: December 14, 2020, 23:57 IST
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Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait on Monday alleged that Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand police had been “torturing” farmers by seizing their tractor trolleys to cease them from becoming a member of protests in opposition to the Centre’s new agri legal guidelines. He threatened to block the Ghazipur border if the farmers from the 2 states weren’t allowed to be part of the agitation.
Thousands of farmers are protesting at numerous border factors of Delhi in opposition to the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. They are demanding that these legal guidelines, which had been enacted in September, be repealed.
“State governments should not intervene in our agitation and stop trying to create hindrance as it will prolong till our demand of scrapping farm laws is not fulfilled,” Tikait stated.
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