Government being run by big corporates, says Rakesh Tikait

‘Farmers should be wary of the divisive politics of BJP’

The demands made by farmers against the agriculture reform laws are not being heeded by the Narendra Modi government as it is being run by big corporates, Bharatiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said on Monday. He was addressing farmers at a panchayat in Modinagar, ahead of the scheduled mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar on September 5. He alleged that the government did not want to bring in a law on the minimum support price because it wanted to safeguard the interests of its corporate friends. “They want to do business of hunger. If you want to save your land, you have to give the BJP the same treatment that farmers of Bengal administered it in the recent Assembly election,” he added. He said farmers should be wary of the divisive politics of the BJP. “In Uttar Pradesh, they pit Hindus against Muslims, in Gujarat they put Patels against non-Patels, in Haryana, they make it Jats versus non-Jats and in Maharashtra, Marathas are propped up against non-Marathas. It is time to see through their tactics of dividing us to rule,” he said.