New Delhi: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will not permit central government to implement the contentious three-farm bills in the country and they are protesting against it for the last 10 months but are ready to agitate for 10 years, if required.
Speaking at a mahapanchayat held by farmers in Panipat on Sunday before the bandh, Tikait said that it has been 10 months of this agitation but BJP-led union government is not willing redress the genuine demands of the farmers and government must listen with open ears that even if we have to agitate for 10 years we are ready.
Several senior farmer leaders, including Tikait and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, addressed the mahapanchayat. Chaduni urged all sections of society to join the Bharat Bandh and observe a peaceful protest.