Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on the Ghazipur border during the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the three agricultural laws, in New Delhi.
The leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), Rakesh Tikait, has said that the agricultural movement will spread to the state of West Bengal in the coming days.
Speaking to IANS, Tikait said: “Is West Bengal an external state? So why can’t we go to West Bengal? Farmers are not getting good rates for their crops.”
He further said that Bengal is close to the sea and that fish farmers have many problems. Tikait added that imports are increasing there, while many fishermen have lost their lives in Bengal.
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He said they plan to go to West Bengal not because it is a polling state, but to further spread awareness of the farmers’ problem.
Tikait also said that a mahapanchayat will take place in West Bengal in the coming days.
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