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Muzaffarnagar: Swarms Of Farmers Gather In 'Mahapanchayat' To Support BKU

Farmers' Protest: The farmers gathered in huge numbers a day after the BKU leader Rakesh Tikait broke down at Ghazipur.

Muzaffarnagar: Swarms Of Farmers Gather In 'Mahapanchayat' To Support BKU
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Supporting the Bharatiya Kisan Union-led protest against the agriculture laws in Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, thousands of farmers have gathered바카라 웹사이트in Muzaffarnagar to attend the mahapanchayat.바카라 웹사이트

It seems like every person even remotely related to agriculture and farming has reached바카라 웹사이트Muzaffarnagar. The farmers gathered in huge numbers a day after the BKU leader Rakesh Tikait broke down at Ghazipur and fear took over바카라 웹사이트that the farmers who had been camping there for two months would be forcibly removed by the local administration.바카라 웹사이트

Disrupting the traffic movement, tons of tractors with the tricolour and flags of farm unions were parked along the city road.바카라 웹사이트The GIC ground near Mahaveer Chowk was packed, a sea of people congregating to back the protesters at UP Gate in Ghazipur.

The GIC ground was the centre stage and scores of regional farmer leaders took the mike to back the protesters at the UP Gate in Ghazipur바카라 웹사이트

As Muzaffarnagar became the meeting point for farmers from across the region, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh also announced support for the BKU and his son, party leader Jayant Chaudhary, participated in the mahapanchayat too.

Singh, RLD president and former Union minister, had spoken to BKU president Naresh Tikait and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, party vice president Chaudhary said.바카라 웹사이트

"It is a matter of life and death for farmers, but do not worry. All have to stay together, united in this -- this is Chaudhary saahab's바카라 웹사이트 (Ajit Singh's) message," the RLD vice president said in a tweet in Hindi.

The Tikait brothers, sons of legendary farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, are leading the BKU.

Members of the group have been protesting at Ghazipur for more than two months to demand a rollback of the contentious farm laws brought by the Centre in September last year.

The RLD, which was virtually wiped out in the last Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, was founded by Singh, son of the former prime minister and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh.

The바카라 웹사이트 ahapanchayat was called by BKU national president Naresh Tikait over the developments in Ghazipur.

With PTI Inputs바카라 웹사이트

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