Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait is often in the headlines for his statements. Before the UP elections, he was continuously attacking the BJP and it was believed that the BJP would suffer a lot due to Rakesh Tikait’s displeasure in western UP. But it didn’t happen. The BJP not only performed well in western UP but also managed to form the government.
When Rakesh Tikait was seen in saffron turban: Rakesh Tikait was wearing a saffron colored turban when he attended a program of ABP News after the election results were out. Anchor Sumit Awasthi quipped that “Yeh Rakesh Tikait hai? He is in saffron turban today.” The anchor asked that Rakesh Tikait ji, your complexion has changed today, instead of green, you are wearing a saffron turban?
What did Rakesh Tikait say on wearing saffron turban?: To this Rakesh Tikait said that “You have wrong information. If you watch old videos, you will get only saffron color in it. So how did the color dissolve? When asked, Rakesh Tikait said that “Our job is to agitate, the government will be formed by one or the other, but the advantage of our agitation is that all the parties have kept the issue of farmers in their agenda.”
Rakesh Tikait was asked in a program of Times Now that you said that BJP’s vote was taken by Cocoa but the results show that Cocoa was taken and then given to BJP? On this, Rakesh Tikait said that “what address did she take but Coco had gone with BJP’s vote.” On this, Rakesh Tikait was asked that today you are seen deliberately, often you are aggressive? Rakesh Tikait said that “Aap Punjab ka poocho, I was contesting some election which I have lost. I am alright.”
When Anchor Navika Kumar asked on Times Now that ‘You had come out to defeat the government by taking the movement, if the results have come in favor of BJP, then it means the movement has lost?’ On this, Rakesh Tikait said that ‘Talk about the results of Punjab also, what has happened to the BJP there.’ On this, Navika said that ‘Tikait sahib has no answer.’ After this, Rahul Shivshankar, who was present in the show, said that ‘PM Modi brought a law which would have benefited the farmers, but you started agitating?’ On this Rakesh Tikait said that ‘Have the farmers got the power for the crop?’
Rahul Shivshankar said that your movement did not work. This means that you park your tractor in the garage now because you do not move it in the fields. Tikait got furious at this. Tikait said that ‘get your mind right, the tractor is not parked in the garage.’