Tag: Rakesh Tikait

Ajay Mishra Teni calls out farmers’ protest as ‘Dogs keep on barking’

Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, who is facing backlash over his son's alleged involvement in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence calls farmer leader Rakesh Tikait a "Do Kaudi Ka Aadmi" in a video shared on microblogging sites. 

August 23, 2022

Govt wants to have me killed: Rakesh Tikait

Tractors more than 10 years are being stopped. BKU is fighting against such harassments. Tikait added.

June 4, 2022

Three men throws black paint at Rakesh Tikait in B’luru, nabbed

Tikait was attending a press conference on "Raita Chaluvali, Aatmavalokana haagu Spasteekarana Sabha (Farmer's Movement, Introspection and Clarification Meeting)" organised by Karnataka State Farmers Association and Hasiru Sene.

May 30, 2022

Rakesh Tikait alleges threat call, police probe on

The police are going through the call details record of the number which was used to threaten the leader.

March 28, 2022

Do not want to tarnish PM Modi’s reputation abroad: Rakesh Tikait

His statement comes days after the Centre repealed the three agricultural laws against which several farmers' unions had been protesting for nearly a year.

December 27, 2021

Modi government run by corporate houses: Tikait

Tikait rubbished the view that MSP for several farm produce will put a huge burden on the government exchequer.

December 23, 2021

Tikait urges Govt to “immediately arrest culprits of Lakhimpur Kheri incident

Tikait said everyone should be allowed to meet the families of victims killed in the violence in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri and also asked the government to arrest all the accused of killing the farmers within a week.

October 7, 2021

Bharat Bandh will compel Centre to listen to farmers’: Rakesh Tikait

"No matter how long we have to stretch this protest, we will not step back": Tikait.

September 27, 2021

Now, Rakesh Tikait calls Owaisi ‘chacha jaan’

Tikait, on Wednesday, claimed that Owaisi is hand in glove with the BJP and called him the saffron party's 'chacha jaan'.

September 15, 2021

Rakesh Tikait defamed farmers by politicising issues for his self-interest: BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kisan Morcha national president and Lok Sabha member from Fatehpur Sikri, Rajkumar Chahar told IANS that he was fulfilling his political ambition by putting guns on farmers' shoulders.

September 6, 2021

UP to be the next stop for farmers’ agitation: Tikait

Rakesh Tikait said, "We are announcing Mission UP/Uttarakhand. Rallies and Maha panchayats will be organised in these states. We are also demanding that toll plazas should be made free for all".

July 26, 2021

Mamata Banerjee vows to rally Opp behind farmers

'Aim is to remove Modi, Centre’s ill-advised policies are hurting all sectors'

June 10, 2021

Rakesh Tikait to visit WB 14 days ahead of polls

Tikait's visit to West Bengal holds significance as the SKM recently announced that it will appeal to the people of the poll bound states to teach a lesson to the BJP against its anti-farmer and anti-poor policies.

March 5, 2021

‘It is a do or die battle for farmers’, says Arvind Kejriwal at Meerut Kisan Mahapanchayat

He called farmers “true patriots” and said that on January 26 protesters were deliberately diverted from the prescribed route and those who hoisted the flag at the Red Fort were their workers.

February 28, 2021

Farmers to hold ‘rail roko’ on Thursday, says Rakesh Tikait

The protest will be staged from 12 pm to 4 pm, said sources.

February 17, 2021

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait promises to take farmers’ movement to West Bengal

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a farmers'' "mahapanchayat" at Garhi Sampla here, the peasant leaders said like many other states, they will tour West Bengal too shortly.

February 16, 2021

Delhi Police files FIR against Rakesh Tikait, other farmers leaders for January 26 violence

Till now, Delhi Police has registered 22 FIRs in various districts over the violent protest by agitating farmers on January 26, under sections of rioting, damage to public property and assault on a public servant with deadly weapons.

January 27, 2021