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2021-03-11 India-Pakistan

Farmers ready to continue protest on Delhi borders till Modi govt lasts: Tikait

Second gen leaders of the Farmer Protests. Have they been taking Pakistan’s thirty pieces of silver the entire time?

[OneIndia] Farmers are ready to stay put on Delhi borders to protest against three agri laws for the remaining three and half years of the Modi government''s second term and the stir cannot be "culled" any which way the Centre tries, legendary farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait''s son Narendra Tikait says.

Narendra, who does not hold any official position in Bharatiya Kisan Union, formed by his father in 1986, and mostly focusses on the family''s farming activities but is as vocal on issues concerning farmers as his two elder brothers Naresh and Rakesh Tikait who are leading from the front in the agitation that has been continuing for more than 100 days.

Speaking to PTI at his home in Sisauli, Muzaffarnagar district, 45-year-old Narendra also said his two brothers and the entire Tikait family would leave the protest if even smallest of any wrongdoing is proved against even a single family member, as he rejected allegations by some quarters that they have built properties and made money from the agitation.

The eldest brother Naresh Tikait is BKU president, while Rakesh Tikait holds the position of national spokesperson of the organization, which under Mahendra Singh Tikait''s leadership in 1988 had laid a virtual siege to Meerut in pursuit of higher prices for sugarcane, cancellation of loans and lowering of water and electricity rates. The same year, BKU held a week-long protest in Delhi''s Boat Club to focus on the plight of farmers.

After Mahendra Singh Tikait''s death in 2011, Naresh and Tikait have been leading the main organization in various roles, though a number of faction groups have emerged in various parts of the country over the years.

Farmers agitation will continue till three farm laws are withdrawn: Rakesh Tikait

Narendra said the Centre is under any misconception that it can "cull" the farmers'' protest like it has "culled" other agitations in the past using various tactics.

"I am here in Sisauli but my eyes are there at the protest," he said, adding that he keeps visiting Ghazipur border where hundreds of farmers and BKU supporters are camping since November 2020.

Asked about allegations that the Tikait family holds land worth hundreds of crores and that BKU is involved in hooliganism in the region, he said, "There is nothing that they (the government) could find against us and therefore this (levelling allegations) is happening. If they find a single fault in any member of our family, then we will return from Delhi."

He also rejected allegations of hooliganism by BKU as incorrect.

"Why would we do it? Some even say that we are taking money for the protest. More than 200 of our farmers have sacrificed their lives during the protest. People are donating money even during the last rites of those who have died. There is no question of we taking money for protests as we are not short on any resources," he said.

Describing his family''s position as Chaudhary or head of Balyan Khap (the Balyan caste council), Tikait said this Khap leads 84 villages in the region as per traditions continuing for ages.

His eldest brother Naresh Tikait is the head of the Balyan Khap, which makes him de facto head of ''Sarv Khap'' (all caste councils).

"We have 84 villages (belonging to the Balyan Khap). By that measure, we have 3 lakh bigha of land. When our father passed away, he had passed on the responsibility of 84 villages to us. We are Chaudhary of 84 villages and all this is ours only. What are we going to do by seeking more money," he said.

Tikait also hinted at a ''Sarv Khap'' meeting in Soram in near future to further mobilise regional support if protests continued further on Delhi''s borders and the government does not agree to farmers'' demands.

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#1 We have 84 villages

India's own Taliban. Indian Governments have been a succession of lily-livered pansies playing with marigolds and vermilion, bowing and joining hands and dancing to stupid hubris, from the day the country became free. If the present rulers had any sense they would just let the military handle the 'revolution', instead of domestic agencies. We would Khashoggi the movement leaders, and any scribes and reporters that dared to air their views or express their outrage over it. Keep culling, while the politicals covered for us at the UN and all those temples of global humanism from Brussels to New York.

The British had strategized the culling of a number of 'criminal communities and tribes' but failed to do it in time and the second world war started; and some of that muscle was drafted, hoping it would perish there, except it didn't. Things like the Criminal Tribes Act (1871) and banning of certain recidivist sections of society were necessary measures in establishing a coherent administration for law abiding people. But Independence brought with it the wonderful Socialist gravy train, and the first rulers were adherents of Gandhi, an insufferably self righteous bastard with delusions of sainthood and love for 'diversity'. These people who are holding entire villages to ransom today are the spawn of those leeches who have benefited from the socialist largesse. A system that appears to be very strong and unitary and crushingly autocratic, but is actually flexible like a 'reed shaken with the wind'.

Another lesson for the west.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-03-11 06:56|| 2021-03-11 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Gandhi, an insufferably self righteous bastard with delusions of sainthood and love for 'diversity'.

As racist as any man of his time, he wrote open letters to the Jews under the Nazi jackboot, advising them to proudly bare their necks to the Nazi sword, knowing they’d thusly showed their moral superiority.

I, too, have no love for the gentleman.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-11 07:23|| 2021-03-11 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ To his credit, he worked his arse off as a British, Natal Indian Ambulance Corps stretcher bearer at the Boer War Battle of Spion Kop, Jan 23, 1900 – Jan 24, 1900.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-11 07:28|| 2021-03-11 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Richard Grenier's scathing review of that BS-on-stilts 1982 movie about Gandhi, and the insane (albeit courageous) pervert's many monstrosities

Posted by Bill McCoy5925 2021-03-11 09:26|| 2021-03-11 09:26|| Front Page Top

03:35 Grom the Reflective
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