'Agar jinda ho to Delhi aa jao': Tiakait urges farmers across the country

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait urged the farmers that 'Agar jinda ho to Delhi aa jao' (If you are alive, then come to Delhi).

New Delhi:Armed with a new slogan to reunite farmers against three farm laws, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader and spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said that they will fight till the end.

Tikait urged the farmers by chanting the slogan: 'Agar jinda ho to Delhi aa jao' ( If you are alive then come to Delhi).

Speaking to media persons, Tikait said, "Once this Covid period gets over, this message will be communicated from village to village that if you want to stay alive and save land, then come to Delhi and agitate."

"No talks have been done on behalf of the government. We wrote a letter to the government, in which it was said that we can talk to the Prime Minister on a phone call but till now that phone number has not been provided to us," Tikait said.

"We are ready to talk but until the proper solution, the agitation will not end," he added.

Meanwhile, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions, Saturday announced that it will observe May 26 as ‘black day', marking six months of their protest at Delhi's borders against the Centre's three farm laws.

Hundreds of farmers have been camping at Delhi's borders since November 2020 demanding that the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 be rolled back and a new law made to guarantee minimum support price for crops.

However, the government, which has held multiple rounds of formal dialogue with the protestors, has maintained that the laws are pro-farmer.