Folks’s choice paramount, hope govts work for farmers: Rakesh Tikait

Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait stated the choice of individuals is paramount as he hoped the brand new governments in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will work for farmers and labourers. The comment of the nationwide spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) got here late on Thursday after the BJP gained majority seats in 4 states, together with Uttar Pradesh, whereas the Aam Aadmi Party stormed to energy in Punjab.

“Within the nice pageant of democracy, the choice of the individuals is paramount. The farmers’ motion confirmed its impact. We hope that every one the governments which have been fashioned will work for to uplift farmers and labourers of their respective states. Congratulations to all on the victory,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi.

Tikait’s BKU was a part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella physique of farmers unions which had spearheaded the 13-month-long protest in Delhi in 2020-21 towards three contentious farm legal guidelines, which now stand repealed.

Within the aftermath of the enduring protests, the SKM had launched a “punish BJP” marketing campaign in Uttar Pradesh, the place farmer leaders toured a number of locations and highlighted the anti-agriculture insurance policies of the saffron occasion and points like inflation, alleged corruption and the Lakhimpur Kheri violence through which a Union minister’s son is among the many accused.