Farmers’ protest likely to go on till Dec

Farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait in Prayagraj on Sunday. Pic/PTI

The Bhartiya Kisan Union-led farmer agitation against the three central farm laws may continue till December this year, the outfit national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said here on Sunday. He made the statement while talking to reporters here.

"This agitation possibly will stretch up to November or December this year," he said. Talking about his West Bengal visit, Tikait said during their poll campaigning there, the central government people have been asking farmers to give them one feastful of rice. "I have advised Bengal farmers to ask grain seekers to fix an MSP of Rs 1,850 per quintal for paddy before giving them a single grain of rice."

He said after Bengal, he was planning to visit other parts of the country to press for the enactment of a law guaranteeing an MSP for various crops. "In Bihar, the paddy is currently being bought by traders at an abysmally low rate of Rs 750 to Rs 800 per quintal. I want a law guaranteeing the MSP for various crops," he said.

FIR for digging borewell
Police have lodged two separate cases against farmers for allegedly raising concrete wall structure and digging a borewell on National Highway-44 in Haryana's Sonipat district, close to the Singhu border protest site. The cases were filed after complaints from the National Highways Authority of India and the local civic authorities, Inspector Ravi Kumar said. He said the structure and the borewell were coming up illegally.

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