MEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE FARM AGITATION

ANIL YADAV

He came into prominence during the current farmer agitation. Unlike other two farmer leaders, he is not that well known. But after his organisation Bhartiya Kissan Union (BKU) started calling people to join the agitation, he suddenly came into the limelight The Indore- based leader was finally arrested on June 4 and sent to jail in Bhopal on June 5, with police saying he was taken into preventive custody to ensure he plays no role in inciting violent protests.

SHIV KUMAR SHARMA

Also called kakaji, the veteran farmer leader is at present the chief of Rashtriya Kissan Mazdoor Sangh , which is one the two main farmer bodies leading the farmer stir in the state. Before 2010, he was president of Bhartiya Kissan Sangh (BKS). But after he led a farmer agitation in 2010 in which farmers laid siege to Bhopal with their tractors for two days, he was expelled from BKS. After that he started a parallel farmer organisation, with the name Rashtriya Kissan Mazdoor Sangh

SHIVKANT DIXIT

Leader of Bhartiya Kissan Sangh (BKS), which is affiliated to ‘saffron parivar’, he came into prominence during the ongoing farmer agitation when he announced on June 4 that thestir had been “deferred” . He made the announcement after a delegation he led met chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at Ujjain. This was taken as a betrayal by other two major farmer organisations who were primarily leading the agitation. Dixit is an RSS pracharak, and in the past has worked in the tribaldominated Chhattisgarh. He has held important posts in the RSS, including vibagh pracharak and state level pracharak. At present, he is sanghathan mantri of BKS unit in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.