Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said that he will hold a meeting with the farmers in Kolkata on March 13, ANI reported. The scheduled meeting comes amid aggressive campaigning by political parties in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections.
Tikait said he will ask the farmers if they were facing any difficulties. “We will ask the farmers whether or not their produce was being bought at minimum support price,” the BKU leader said.
The farmer leader added: “The government has gone to Kolkata. They will return in one-and-a half month. We are also going there. We will meet the government there only.”
On March 2, farmer unions had said that they will send teams to election-bound states to ask people to vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party. Elections to the Assemblies of Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Union Territory of Puducherry, will be held from March 27 till April 29.
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