New Delhi: Refusing to budge, Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday that the farmers’ agitation may continue till October as the protesters are not going to return home until the three controversial agricultural reform laws are withdrawn by the government.
Soon after a delegation of Shiv Sena MPs, led by Sanjay Raut, met Mr Tikait at the Ghazipur border, the BKU leader said: “Our slogan is –‘kanoon wapsi nahi, to ghar wapsi nahi’ (Will not go back home until the laws are withdrawn). This agitation will not end before October… it will not end anytime soon.”
Speaking about the Republic Day violence, Mr Tikait claimed that the youth who hoisted the Sikh flag at the Red Fort had been allowed there by the authorities. “All this was done to malign the image of the Punjabi community and paint the image of farmers as anti-national,” he added.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisation of the protesting farmers’ unions, said there…