Rajasthan: Rakesh Tikait’s Cavalcade Attacked With Stones, 4 Detained

Tikait tweeted a video of the car after the attack and said “BJP’s thugs” had perpetrated it.

Jaipur: The cavalcade of farmers’ leader Rakesh Tikait was attacked with stones, damaging his car’s rear windshield when he was going to address a rally in Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday.

Police have detained four persons, including a student leader.

Tikait tweeted a video of the car after the attack and said “BJP’s thugs” had perpetrated it. The leader of western Uttar Pradesh’s Bharatiya Kisan Union, who is credited with reviving the farmers’ movement at Delhi’s borders at a crucial time, is touring parts of the country to address rallies on the three controversial farm laws.

Bhiwadi Superintendent of Police Ram Murti Joshi told PTI that Tikait was not in his car when the stones were pelted at his cavalcade. No one has been reported injured in the incident.

Stones were pelted at the cavalcade when it reached Tatarpur chauraha on its way to Tikait’s second rally venue, Joshi said, adding the farmer leader addressed two rallies in the district on Friday.

Tikait subsequently also tweeted that the attack on him was premeditated and said that “if BJP MPs and MLAs bring out their thugs to create violence on the roads then we will not let their MPs and MLAs come out on the streets in Uttar Pradesh.”


(With PTI inputs)