Many farmer issues still remain unresolved: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait

Tikait with a sword at a Kisan Mahapanchayat in Lucknow. Pic/PTI

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Monday said that besides the repealing of the three agri laws, there are many issues of farmers that need to be resolved as a large number of them gathered here for a ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat' to press their demands for a legal guarantee for MSP, among other things.

"It seems that after announcing repealing of the three farm laws, the government does not want to speak to the farmers. The government should make it clear that it has repealed the laws in the true sense and talk to us so that we can start moving to our villages," said Tikait at the venue.

The SKM has put forth six demands before the government. Besides the legal guarantee for minimum support price, the farmers are demanding the removal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, whose son is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, withdrawal of cases against farmers, building a memorial for the protesters who lost their lives during the agitation and withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill.

The issues of MSP, seeds, dairy and pollution need to be resolved, Tikait said. More than 750 farmers, mostly from Punjab, died during the protest against the agri laws, he claimed. Despite PM's surprise announcement, farmer leaders have maintained the protesters won't budge until the laws are formally repealed.

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