mahendra singh tikait

mahendra singh tikait, leader of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), criticized the BJP for using divisive tactics to gain votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He accused the party of dividing people based on religion and caste. Tikait also dismissed the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to increase the procurement rate of paddy, stating that it was inadequate. He argued that the government should instead endorse the Minimum Support Price (MSP) guarantee bill to protect farmers' interests. Tikait highlighted the exploitation of farmers by private traders and procurement agencies.

Son of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) co-founder and veteran farmers’ leader mahendra singh tikait, Rakesh further said that the overall condition of farmers in Bihar was very bad. “If necessary, I will call on chief minister Nitish Kumar and request him to take effective steps to solve their problems,” he said.

The decision was taken at a function organised in Lucknow on the death anniversary of farmer leader Chaudhary mahendra singh tikait. The new group has been formed under the leadership of Rajesh Singh Chauhan, who was unanimously elected as the outfit's national president. He was the national vice-president of the parent BKU.

Months after being part of a raging farmers' protest against the new farm laws, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Sunday was hit by rebellion when a group of senior functionaries detached itself from the union and formed a separate outfit -- BKU (non-political).

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait has taken serious view of the deletion of content about Bhartitya Kisan Union (BKU) from the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book. The content about BKU has been removed from the chapter ‘Rise of Popular Movements’ out of the class 12 political science textbook of the NCERT.

The Tikait brothers of western UP, who were recently side-lined by a large section of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) members by constituting the breakaway BKU-(Apolitical) and keeping them out of it, received mixed response from the powerful khaps even as the newly formed BKU-A held its

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Aligarh on Tuesday will be crucial for BJP’s Jat outreach and the state government’s development pitch in the run up to the assembly elections.

A farmers' agitation seeking the removal of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra and a law guaranteeing Minimum Support Price among other demands was called off on Saturday after top district officials met the protesters, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said.

Calling the current black paint attack on him in Karnataka a "well-planned" conspiracy, Tikait alleged there was a plot to assassinate him when he went to General Bipin Rawat's house in Delhi to pay respect to him after he died in a helicopter crash last December.

Senior functionaries of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) parted ways to form a new outfit - BKU (non-political) - on Sunday, the death anniversary of union founder Chaudhary mahendra singh tikait. Reacting to the development, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait accused the ruling BJP of " orchestrating the rebellion" in the group.

A day after Bhartiya Kisan Union's (BKU) split, the farmer's body received another jolt as one of its founding members, Ghulam Mohammad Jola, died after suffering a heart attack in his village Jola in Muzaffarnagar district. He was 87, and was considered head of 24 villages in Muzaffarnagar.

Farmers in the state are up in arms against the state government over losses they have been suffering due to stray cattle menace. There will be a series of protests that farmers will hold over the matter in the coming months.

"The previous government of Uttar Pradesh had built a Haj House in Ghaziabad. The BJP government has constructed a Kailash Mansarovar Bhawan in Ghaziabad with state-of-the-art facilities at a cost of Rs 94 crore. Giving respect to the faith, this building is a great gift for the devotees. The difference is clear," Adityanath tweeted in Hindi.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal visited UP Gate on Sunday and extended his party’s support to the farmers’ agitation there, marking the third straight day of politicians visiting the protest site bordering Ghazipur in Delhi.

Rakesh Tikait of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), who has emerged as a firebrand farmer leader for leading the protests against the three farm laws, showed the other side of his personality – that of a deft mediator – which helped the state government defuse tension in the aftermath of Lakhimpur Kheri incident.