Time To Bury Political Differences And Join Hands With Farmers: RLD Chief Ajit Singh
As tension prevails on Delhi borders where thousands of farmers are protesting against the Centre’s new farm bills, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh announced support to the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), spearheading the protests. In an interview with Outlook’s Preetha Nair, the former Union minister said the farm protests shouldn’t be seen through the caste prism.
- Q) RLD extended support to Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait after he broke down over the government’s alleged ‘ill-treatment of protesting farmers.
We have been supporting the farmer protests all along. But on Thursday, when the police forcibly tried to remove protestors from the Ghazipur border, I called both BKU president Naresh Tikait and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait and extended support to them in their fight against the laws. Our vice-president Jayant Jayant Chaudhary has gone to Ghazipur today. It is a wrong notion that the farmers’ morale is down. After the Uttar Pradesh government tried to remove the people sitting on dharna, the farmers are angrier now. I don’t think that the agitation can be weakened by any methods.