Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait has warned the Centre of ‘march to Parliament if it does not scrap the three laws against which farmers have been protesting on several borders of Delhi for nearly three months.
.“This time the call will be for Parliament gherao. We will announce it and then march towards Delhi. This time 40 lakh tractors will be there instead of four lakh tractors,” Tikait was quoted as saying by Times Now.
He also urged the farmers to be prepared for the ‘Delhi march’ as the call for it can be given at any time. He said that the date to gherao the Parliament will be decided by the leaders of the United Front.
The farmer leader said they would plough the parks near India Gate and grow crops there, news agency PTI reported.
He also alleged a conspiracy was hatched to dent the image of the farmers during their tractor parade on January 26, when violence had broken out in the national capital. “The farmers of the country love the tricolor, but not the leaders of this country,” he said.