Tikait to join 7 'mahapanchayats' in 3 states starting Feb 14

Beginning Sunday, Bharatiya Kisan Union leer Rakesh Tikait would be attending seven farmers' meetings planned across Haryana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to garner support for ongoing stir against new farm laws.

se farmers' meetings, which will culminate on February 23, are part of Samyukta Kisan Morcha's outreach programme, BKU's media in-charge Dharmendra Malik said.

se "kisan mahapanchayat" are scheduled to be held in Haryana's Karnal, Rohtak, Sirsa and Hisar districts, and Maharashtra's Akola and Rajasthan's Sikar, he said.

Thousands of farmers are encamped at Delhi's border points of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur since vember with a demand that Centre repeal three farm laws enacted in September and make a new law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for crops. government, which has held 11 rounds of talks with protesting farmers unions, has, however, maintained that laws are pro-farmer.Tikait, national spokesperson of BKU, has been leing protestors at Ghazipur on Delhi-Uttar Presh border and said farmers won't end ir movement until ir demands are t met.