Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has invited Rakesh Tikait to join the party and said that he is welcome if he wants to contest elections.
Meerut: Bhartiya Kisan Union Leader Rakesh Tikait speaking with the media stated that he will not be contesting any elections. Further, he has appealed to the political parties and said that no party should use his name or photograph in their posters.
Hoardings put up by an RLD leader to welcome the homecoming of BKU national spokesperson Chaudhary Rakesh Tikait, the biggest face of the farmers’ movement, became the cause of controversy. State General Secretary of RLD Women’s Cell, Monika Singh, along with Chaudhary Jayant Singh and Akhilesh Yadav got the welcome hoardings installed on NH-58 from Meerut to Muzaffarnagar.
This was opposed by the BKU workers and the hoardings on the toll plaza were taken down in the night itself. BKU District President Manoj Tyagi said that the United Kisan Morcha is apolitical. It has nothing to do with any party. Putting up such hoardings is a political stunt. BKU is not affiliated with any political party.
Tikait received a warm welcome from the farmers in Meerut upon his return from Delhi.
“I’m not going to contest any election and no political party should use my name or photo in their posters,” said Tikait to ANI.
On December 9, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha the umbrella body under which the farmers had banded together announced the suspension of their year-long agitation after they received a letter from the Central government, with promises of forming a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and immediate withdrawal of cases against them immediately.
The farmers are heading back to their respective states in large convoys of tractors and trucks, in the same way, they arrived at the sites at the Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri on the outskirts of the national capital a year ago, to protest the Centre’s three agrarian laws.
The farmers will hold a review meeting on January 15. “If the government does not fulfill its promises, we could resume our agitation,” the SKM had said in its statement.
On the other hand, just before the assembly elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh next year, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has raised the political temperature of the state by inviting Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait to contest the elections. After appearing on the banner together in Meerut, now Akhilesh Yadav from Jaunpur has started throwing strings on Rakesh Tikait.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has invited Rakesh Tikait to join the party and said that he is welcome if he wants to contest elections.
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