NOIDA: The farmers of the country suffered for 13 months due to the “wrong policies” of the BJP-led Centre and now, youngsters are facing the results of a “wrong decision”, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said on Thursday, wading into the row over the Agnipath scheme.
The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and a prominent face of the 2020-21 farmers’ stir in Delhi, took to social media to lodge his protest against the Centre’s new step for contractual recruitment into the armed forces.
“The farmers of the country have suffered for 13 months due to the government’s wrong policies and today, the youngsters of the country are facing the consequences of a wrong decision. The government should know that those getting into the armed forces are also sons of farmers. We will fight till our last breath for the youngsters of the country and our children,” Tikait said in a tweet in Hindi.
Tikait’s remarks came on a day when violent protests erupted in several parts of north India, including
Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.