“We said that the opposition in the country is weak, we are sitting on the streets now, if the opposition had been strong, we do not need to have done that, the opposition should be strong, we told her (Mamata Banerjee),” Tikait said that the news agency Ani on Thursday.
The Leader of the Farmer, Rakesh Tikait, who met the Minister of Chief of Bengal of the West, Mamata Banerjee, said today, today he said to the head of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that the opposition of the country is weak. Tikait has been leading the protests of farmers near the Delhi border seeking withdrawals from three agricultural laws approved by Parliament in September 2020.
“We said that the opposition in the country is weak, we are sitting on the streets now, if the opposition had been strong, we do not need to have done that, the opposition should be strong, we told her (Mamata Banerjee),” Tikait said that the news agency Ani on Thursday.
The leader of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) said he met Bannerjee as the main minister and not as head of the party.
“Did I find the president of Afghanistan, so I had to take the Government permit from India? Does a visa require a cm? We will meet with all the CMS about state policies,” said Tikait to Ani, And he added that he will also meet with the main Ministers of Uttarakhand and Punjab, who are governed by the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and Congress, respectively.
During the meeting on Wednesday with Tikait and other farmers’ leaders in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee assured him to the agitation against agricultural laws of the center, which has been passing since November last year. One of the most vocal critics of the laws in the opposition, Banerjee hit downtown on Wednesday asking why it was so difficult to talk with farmers. He also said that farmers’ movement is not limited only to the northern states of India of Punjab, Haryana or Uttar Pradesh and is for all India.
“The BJP rule has been disastrous for all sectors of medical care to farmers to industry. India is suffering … We face natural and political disasters,” added the Bengal CM.
Until now, eleven rounds of talks have been maintained between farmers’ unions and the center in an attempt to put an end to the neutral point on the laws of the farm, which were approved in September 2020 by Parliament. However, there has not yet been a concrete solution and farmers continue their protest despite the second furious wave of the pandemic of Coronavirus’s disease (COVID-19) in the country. Farmers are familiar with their demands for a complete revocation of agricultural laws along with the guarantee of a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP).
The Minister of Agriculture of the Union, Narendra Singh took urged the unions to resume the talks on the laws and list their objections in the logical provisions. “We will listen and we will find a solution,” he said during an information session of Cabinet on Wednesday.