Rakesh Tikait, the part-time farmer leader and full-time politician on Thursday had a series of tantrum fits, ranging from an unending breakdown to the assault of a youth right in front of him. Perhaps, the product of nepotism is frustrated with the law enforcing agencies coming cracking down hard against him. Having to see right before his eyes the fizzling out of the agitation which has forced him to take emergency help from political parties like SP and RLD, the wannabe mass leader has everything going wrong.
To make matters worse for the son of Mahendra Singh Tikait, Rakesh has been slapped with the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). According to the Hindustan Times, Delhi police on Thursday said they were probing a “larger conspiracy and criminal design” behind the violent tractor rally by farmers on Republic Day and that this would be done under stringent sections of sedition and the UAPA, in addition to investigations into the violence itself.
Having been slapped with the UAPA, Rakesh Tikait’s hopes of resuscitating his political career are now nothing more than far fetched dreams. To be a political leader with a UAPA background is simply impossible, and Tikait’s dreams of outgrowing his present self have been shattered. An annoyed Rakesh Tikait therefore, took to unconsolably crying before national media on Thursday, claiming that the protests will go on and reiterated that the laws must be repealed. He also threatened to commit suicide and said that there was a conspiracy underway to murder farmers.
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Soon after, the farmer leader took to brazenly slapping a youth for reasons best known to him. Having been caught red-handed assaulting a youth, Rakesh Tikait went on to claim without any evidence that the youth was not a member of their organization and was misbehaving with the media. He also alleged that the youth was a BJP supporter.
"He is not a member of our organisation. He was taking a stick and would have done something. He was misbehaving with media. All those who are here with ill intent should leave," says BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait pic.twitter.com/3rv0IuOZte
— ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2021
Rakesh Tikait had in June last year come out in wholehearted support of the three revolutionary farm laws, which he and his union are now up in arms against. Hailing the reforms, Tikait had said that the reforms represented the fulfilment of a long-standing wish of India’s farmers. Now, the same man instigated violence in the national capital against the reforms. In light of his hypocrisy, the man is now being abandoned by fellow comrades, as various farmer unions are now coming out in the open and revealing their disgust for Tikait.