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BKU leader Rakesh Tikait to address Kisan Mahapanchayat in Jaipur

Rakesh Tikait is the cynosure of many eyes – not just farmers

8:44 pm January 30, 2021

New Delhi: His tears exercised an emotive pull even he may not have envisaged, helping turn the tide for a movement that seemed to have lost both sheen and momentum after the violence on Republic Day. It was but a moment in time and Rakesh Tikait was the man in it. He was once a Delhi Police constable, tried […]

Villagers bring food, water for Tikait as BKU digs heels at Ghazipur border

8:39 pm January 30, 2021

Ghaziabad: Villagers brought water in clay pots and home-made food for Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday in a show of support for the ongoing stir against the new farm laws, even as local authorities sent tankers of drinking water and mobile toilets at the protest site. Tikait urged the government to restore internet services, […]

Ghaziabad judge commits suicide: Police

11:00 pm January 29, 2021

Ghaziabad: A senior Ghaziabad judge allegedly committed suicide on Friday, police said. The body of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Kumar was found hanging from the ceiling fan by his wife in his bedroom in their flat at Judges’ Colony in Ghaziabad’s Model Town area, they said. City Superintendent of Police Nipun Agarwal said ASJ Kumar, 45, had been living in […]

Rakesh Tikait true patriot: JJP leader Digvijay Chautala

8:30 pm January 29, 2021

Chandigarh: Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Digvijay Singh Chautala on Friday called farmer leader Rakesh Tikait a true patriot and said he has always talked about farmers’ interests. The Delhi Police has registered an FIR against Tikait and others in connection with the violence in the national capital during the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic […]

More farmers from Haryana to head towards protest sites along Delhi’s borders

3:02 pm January 29, 2021

Chandigarh: Several farmers from parts of Haryana on Friday decided to head towards Delhi’s borders to join the ongoing agitation against agri laws, saying the government’s moves against peasant leaders will not weaken their protest. The Ghaziabad administration had on Thursday given an ultimatum to agitating farmers to vacate the Uttar Pradesh Gate protest site by midnight, while the Delhi Police had issued […]