Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said that the protests against the farm laws will go on and spread across India, reported India Today. He was speaking at the farmers’ “mahapanchayat” in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, Tikait said: “Now, a rally of 40 lakh and not four lakh tractors will be taken out.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has never been in a protest in his life and would not understand about “andolanjivis [professional protestors]”, he told the news channel. Tikait was referring to a term used by Modi in the Rajya Sabha where he labelled protestors as a new category of people “who feed off protests”.
“They jump into all sorts of protests, whether it is by lawyers or students or workers,” Modi said on Monday. “Sometimes they can be spotted, while on other occasions, they stay in the background. They are like parasites who feed off protests.”
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