Fissures inside the Bhartiya Kisan Union got here out within the open on the dying anniversary of its founder president Mahendra Singh Tikait on Sunday, with a senior nationwide office-bearer saying the formation of a separate outfit right here.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) vice-president Rajesh Chauhan stated he took the choice after being “insulted” and alleged that the outfit sided with political events within the elections, an obvious reference to this 12 months’s UP Assembly polls.
His outfit will likely be referred to as the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Arajnaitik), Chauhan stated. “Arajnaitik” means apolitical in Hindi.
A senior office-bearer of the brand new outfit, Harinaam Singh, informed PTI that Chauhan introduced the formation of the outfit in Lucknow on the dying anniversary of farmer chief Mahendra Singh Tikait. “Chauhan will be heading the BKU (A),” he stated.
Speaking at an occasion right here, Chauhan alleged that he occasionally tried to place ahead his opinion however was ignored.
Senior BKU leaders Naresh Tikait and Rakesh Tikait “neither listen to workers nor pay any attention to problems of farmers”, he alleged.
“They have gotten into unhealthy firm and insulted us in a single or the opposite approach. I wholeheartedly supported Naresh Tikait and Rakesh Tikait however when the elections got here, they deviated from the best of Mahendra Singh Tikait,” Chauhan alleged.
“They ventured into political mess and had made this organization a puppet in the hands of political parties. I was extremely saddened and pained by this,” Chauhan said. “Rakesh Tikait was influenced by political parties. He campaigned for one party, while opposed the other party,” Chauhan said but did not name any political party. About the BKU (A), he only abided by the decision of workers and farmers. Chauhan claimed that he was a “senior sipahi” of the BKU than Naresh Tikait and Rakesh Tikait.
Chauhan additionally cleared that he fashioned the brand new group and has not proven doorways to Naresh Tikait and Rakesh Tikait as proven in sure sections of the media.
“They (Tikait brothers) belong to the BKU while my organization is BKU(A). This is a new organization and we do not want any controversy,” Chauhan stated.
Mahendra Singh Tikait was an influential farmer chief in western Uttar Pradesh. He was born on October 6, 1935 at Sisauli village in Muzaffarnagar district and was the founder president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union.
He died in Muzaffarnagar on May 15, 2011 on the age of 75. The BKU was based in 1987 and its present president is Naresh Tikait.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
