Notice to Rakesh Tikait: why legal action must not be taken against him.
Key sentence:
- Rakesh Tikait, about whom the Delhi Police circulated a notice charging him to justify why legal action must not be pursued against him.
- The national spokesman from the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) is a famous name in the farmers’ movement as well as belongs to the well-known Tikait family.
Rakesh Tikait, about whom the Delhi Police released a notice asking him to justify why legal action must not be pursued against him for violating the police agreement about the tractor rally on January 26, is himself A former Delhi Police constable.
BKU’s national spokesperson is a leading name in the farmers:
And also, the ongoing protest by farmers, specifically a sobbing speech he gave when all looked lost, may well mark his ascendance as the son of his father.
The national spokesman of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) is a popular name in the farmers’ movement as well as belongs to the well-known Tikait family of Sisauli village in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district.
Mahendra Singh Tikait tallest farm leader and the president of BKU:
His dad, Mahendra Singh Tikait, one of the country’s top farming leaders as well as president of its BKU, is still recognized as the man who took Delhi to a boat club halt for seven days in October 1988. The movement was joined by over 5 lakh farmers.
Tractors from Haryana began moving towards Ghazipur:
Tikait, who has been protesting on the Ghazipur border around Uttar Pradesh and Delhi together with his supporters, was ordered to vacate the site on Thursday.
At the farmer’s camp, the administration turned off power as well as water. Then comes the speech of Tikait, and also tractors from Haryana began to move towards Ghazipur. On Friday, farmers in Uttar Pradesh organized a Mahapanchayat to address the problem and voiced their support for Tikait.
Tikait is appointed as National spokesperson in the year 1997:
The present BKU president is his older brother, Naresh Tikait. Raised in the village of Sisauli on June 4, 1969, Tikait headed to Sisauli’s DAV School and subsequently entered Kisan Inter College in the district of Muzaffarnagar in Lalukheri.
He graduated from Meerut University with a Bachelor of Arts. He served briefly as a constable for the Delhi police as well as resigned following the 1993 farmers’ protest led by his father.
He was threatened by the government at the time to force his father to end the protest. However, he declined to give in and also decided to resign and join the protest.
In 1997, Tikait was appointed as the national spokesman of the Bharatiya Kisan Union.
He fought the 2007 elections to the assembly through the Khatauli constituency of Muzaffarnagar and lost.
Rakesh Tikait joined RLD in the year 2014:
He later joined Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in March 2014 and challenged the Amroha constituency’s Lok Sabha election towards the advice of agricultural leaders of the region. With the total votes surveyed and lost again, he got just 9,539 votes (0.62 per cent).
It refers to the Khap of Baliyan (clan). In accordance with the tradition of the Khap, just after the demise of their dad Mahendra Singh Tikait on May 15, 2011, his elder brother Naresh Tikait was appointed leader of the Khap as well as chief of BKU.
King Harshvardhan, the Jat leader of Thanesar during the 7th century as well as the practice is still in existence, given the title “Tikait” to the head of Baliyan khap.
