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News Desk: The Maharashtra coordinator of SKM, Sandip Gidde said “Tikait wants to start the Kisan Mahapanchayat in Maharashtra from Yavatmal on February 20, which has earned the dubious distinction of being the hotspot of farmers’ suicides”. Farmers from Vidarbha and other parts of Maharashtra are likely to participate in the Kisan Mahapanchayat, for which permission has been sought from the authorities.
On February 9, Tikait addressed a well-attended ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ at Kurukshetra, which was the third meeting within a week in Haryana. During his address, Tikait criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Andolan-jeevi’ (professional protestors) remarks and asked if people like great freedom fighter Bhagat Singh were included in that category.
Tikait also alleged that attempts were being made to divide the protesting farmers into the lines of region and other considerations, and appealed them to reject any such design. “They will try to divide you into Punjab-Haryana lines, as Sikh and non-Sikh, Hindus and Muslims..,” he alleged.
The farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s farm laws is nationwide and not limited to Punjab or Haryana. We will win this fight, he declared.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting against the three farm sector reform laws enacted by the Centre in September last year. The Centre has been saying these laws will bring in new farming technologies and free the farmers from the clutches of middlemen. The farmers have been rejecting these claims, saying these laws will harm their interest.
