Rakesh Tikait At Ghazipur

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was Sunday detained by the Delhi Police at the Ghazipur border while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in an unemployment protest rally at Jantar Mantar.

The Bharatiya Kisan Union's Rakesh Tikait celebrated Diwali at the Ghazipur protest site alongside other farm members and leaders remembering farmers and soldiers who lost their lives.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait along with supporters staged a sit-in on the waterlogged flyway stretch at Ghazipur on Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border where heavy rains also damaged tents and other structures set up by farmer unions.

Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws at Delhi's Ghazipur border paid tributes to BR Ambedkar on his 130th birth anniversary on Wednesday with BKU leader Rakesh Tikait urging people to save the country from the "company raj".

Spikes on the roads, cement walls and multiple barricades at a farmer protest site at the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have drawn international attention over the past few days. The protesting farmers today added flowers to the picture.

Going firm on their demand for repeal of the new agri laws, hundreds of farmers spent another night in the cold and withstood spells of drizzle on Thursday at Ghazipur, their heavily-secured protest site at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.

BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar, accused by the farmers protesting at the Ghazipur border of trying to disrupt their agitation with his supporters, has made controversial remarks against influential farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been leading the protest against the centre's three agriculture laws at the UP-Delhi border.

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut today met farmers protesting at the Ghazipur border point between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Like many others, his party, too, has expressed its support for their agitation and demanded the withdrawal of the three new farm laws that they have been objecting to.

Concertina wires sandwiched between four layers of yellow barricades, a little way off, buses and trucks parked criss-cross fashion - the Delhi Police have left little to chance in their efforts to stop Uttar Pradesh farmers from crossing over into Delhi by the Ghazipur-Meerut highway.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Friday met farmer leader Rakesh Tikait at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and said the Dalit group will provide all help to strengthen the agitation against the new farm laws.

A massive crowd gathered today for a farmers' "Mahapanchayat" or meeting called by Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Naresh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, less than 150 km from the Ghazipur border out Delhi where Mr Tikait's brother Rakesh is leading a protest against farm laws.

The Bijnore police have said they will prevent farmers of the district in the western part of Uttar Pradesh from travelling to Ghazipur, some 150 kilometres away, where Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait is leading a protest on the Delhi border.

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait slapped a man at the Ghazipur border where farmers are protesting against the new farm laws. "He is not a member of our organisation. He was taking a stick and would have done something. He was misbehaving with the media. All those who are here with ill intent should leave," said Mr Tikait.

A tense night at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur saw cops first trying to drive farmers away from protest sites and then protesters returning after watching a widely-circulated video of a top leader of their agitation, Rakesh Tikait, breaking down and declaring tearfully that he was ready to "face bullets or kill himself". Rakesh Tikait'...

Huge security arrangements were made at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur on Thursday evening as farmers protesting against the Centre's contentious farm laws remained locked in a face-off with the police. Uttar Pradesh decided to take action two days after the violence during the Republic Day tractor rally. The local administration had as...

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait was Sunday detained by the Delhi Police at the Ghazipur border while he was trying to enter the national capital to take part in an unemployment protest rally at Jantar Mantar.

The Bharatiya Kisan Union's Rakesh Tikait celebrated Diwali at the Ghazipur protest site alongside other farm members and leaders remembering farmers and soldiers who lost their lives.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait along with supporters staged a sit-in on the waterlogged flyway stretch at Ghazipur on Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border where heavy rains also damaged tents and other structures set up by farmer unions.

Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws at Delhi's Ghazipur border paid tributes to BR Ambedkar on his 130th birth anniversary on Wednesday with BKU leader Rakesh Tikait urging people to save the country from the "company raj".

Spikes on the roads, cement walls and multiple barricades at a farmer protest site at the Ghazipur border between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have drawn international attention over the past few days. The protesting farmers today added flowers to the picture.

Going firm on their demand for repeal of the new agri laws, hundreds of farmers spent another night in the cold and withstood spells of drizzle on Thursday at Ghazipur, their heavily-secured protest site at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.

BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar, accused by the farmers protesting at the Ghazipur border of trying to disrupt their agitation with his supporters, has made controversial remarks against influential farmer leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been leading the protest against the centre's three agriculture laws at the UP-Delhi border.

Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut today met farmers protesting at the Ghazipur border point between Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. Like many others, his party, too, has expressed its support for their agitation and demanded the withdrawal of the three new farm laws that they have been objecting to.

Concertina wires sandwiched between four layers of yellow barricades, a little way off, buses and trucks parked criss-cross fashion - the Delhi Police have left little to chance in their efforts to stop Uttar Pradesh farmers from crossing over into Delhi by the Ghazipur-Meerut highway.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Friday met farmer leader Rakesh Tikait at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and said the Dalit group will provide all help to strengthen the agitation against the new farm laws.

A massive crowd gathered today for a farmers' "Mahapanchayat" or meeting called by Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Naresh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, less than 150 km from the Ghazipur border out Delhi where Mr Tikait's brother Rakesh is leading a protest against farm laws.

The Bijnore police have said they will prevent farmers of the district in the western part of Uttar Pradesh from travelling to Ghazipur, some 150 kilometres away, where Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait is leading a protest on the Delhi border.

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait slapped a man at the Ghazipur border where farmers are protesting against the new farm laws. "He is not a member of our organisation. He was taking a stick and would have done something. He was misbehaving with the media. All those who are here with ill intent should leave," said Mr Tikait.

A tense night at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur saw cops first trying to drive farmers away from protest sites and then protesters returning after watching a widely-circulated video of a top leader of their agitation, Rakesh Tikait, breaking down and declaring tearfully that he was ready to "face bullets or kill himself". Rakesh Tikait'...

Huge security arrangements were made at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border at Ghazipur on Thursday evening as farmers protesting against the Centre's contentious farm laws remained locked in a face-off with the police. Uttar Pradesh decided to take action two days after the violence during the Republic Day tractor rally. The local administration had as...