Seeds Of Wrath: How To Address Farm Crisis?: Rakesh Tikait & Rajendra Agrawal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayjZKNg4LT0
Oct 9, 2021
Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2021, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers will not hold talks with the government if "conditions" are imposed on the talks.
"The government of India said that MSP [minimum selling price for farm produce] was, is and will be there. It should be there on the ground, not merely on paper in Delhi," he added.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), the outfit led by Rakesh Tikait, is one of the 40 odd farmers' outfits part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) - the farmers' union spearheading the ongoing agitation against the central government's three farm laws.
Rajendra Agrawal, BJP MP from Meerut, responded to Tikait's allegations by saying that PM Narendra Modi has spoken about farmers' issues on multiple occasions. Farmers have been taken into confidence by the Modi government over policy decisions since 2014, he added.