BKU leader urges farmers of Uttar Pradesh to join protest

Gurnam Singh Chadhuni, leader of United Kisan Morcha and President of Bharatiya Kisan Union Haryana, has questioned the farmers' protest movement in Uttar Pradesh. According to Chadhuni, Uttar Pradesh is much larger than both Punjab and Haryana states in terms of population, geographical area and the number of farmers , but even today 500 farmers could not gather at the movement site on the Ghazipur border.

New Delhi: Gurnam Singh Chadhuni, leader of United Kisan Morcha and President of Bharatiya Kisan Union in Haryana, has questioned the farmers' protest movement in Uttar Pradesh. According to Chadhuni, Uttar Pradesh is much larger than both Punjab and Haryana states in terms of population, geographical area, and the number of farmers, but even today 500 farmers could not gather at the movement site on the Ghazipur border.

During his address on Tuesday exclusively for Uttar Pradesh on social media, Chadhuni also raised questions that farmers of Punjab and Haryana succeed in closing all the tolls, but why do the farmers of Uttar Pradesh are not following it? He further added that the impact of the movement should be visible more in Uttar Pradesh.

Chadhuni has also questioned the leadership of the farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, the national spokesman of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Tikait).

In a live social media address to the farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Chadhuni repeatedly said that the farmers should not trust any leader and take control of the movement in their hands. It is not necessary to depend on a farmer leader for this movement.

Various farmers' organisations are protesting the three agricultural laws implemented by the Union government along with the demand for compulsory MSP procurement. The protest movement spread around Delhi's borders has completed six months. So far, the farmers' protest has been more active in Punjab and Haryana. The farmers' associations of these two states are camping at the Singhu border and Tikri border of Delhi.

At the same time, the farmers' organizations of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh are involved in the movement are active on the Shahjahanpur Kheda border adjoining Rajasthan and Haryana. Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has maintained a front on the Ghazipur border adjoining Uttar Pradesh. Tikait has been representing Uttar Pradesh in this entire movement and some farmers have also reached the Ghazipur border on his call, but with each passing day, the number of farmers on the front has steadily declined.

On 26 May, after the completion of six months of the movement, the United Farmers Front called for a 'Black Day', Rakesh Tikait also appealed to the farmers of Uttar Pradesh to reach the Delhi border. Earlier a week ago he gave the call of 'Zinda Hain To Delhi Aa Jao', but it didn't affect the Ghazipur border as the number of farmers did not swell. On Tuesday, Chadhuni, part of the agitating front, expressed his disappointment over the number of farmers at the protest site at Ghazipur border.