At Kurukshetra mahapanchayat, Tikait flays PM

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday criticised PM Modi's ' Andolan-jivi' (professional protestors) remarks and asked if people like great freedom fighter Bhagat Singh will also be put in that category.

At a well-attended 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' at Gumthala Garhu village in Pehowa, a third within a week in Haryana, he said the government must not be under the wrong impression the protesting farmers will return to homes without their demands being accepted.

Without naming the PM or using his ‘Andolan-jivi' phrase, Tikait said, "In Parliament, they are saying these are parjivis (parasites). Was Bhagat Singh who sacrificed his life for this nation a parjivi? What about 150 farmers who died during this agitation? Were they parjivis too? Had they gone to Delhi to agitate and die?”