Prof K Nageshwar: Farmers To Campaign Against BJP (Video)

Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday attended a kisan mahapanchayat or farmers conclave in Kolkatas Bhowanipore area and made an appeal to people to vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, Dainik Bhaskar reported. Speaking at the event, Swaraj India National President Yogendra Yadav also said that farmers wanted to teach BJP a lesson. Members of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmers unions protesting against the new agriculture laws, are touring the poll-bound states to campaign against the saffron party. The farmers body also issued an appeal titled No vote to BJP on Friday. Tikait and other farmer leaders will also visit Nandigram on Saturday evening, while they will go to Singur and Asansol on Sunday, according to Dainik Bhaskar. The Nandigram Assembly seat is important as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will take on her former aide and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari in the constituency. The seat played host to the anti-farm land acquisition movement which propelled Banerjee to power in 2011. https://scroll.in/latest/989427/west-bengal-polls-rakesh-tikait-appeals-to-vote-against-bjp-will-visit-nandigram-and-singur