HDK defends Tikait
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Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has termed the police case towards Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Rakesh Tikait an “attempt to silence” the voice of farmers.
Mr. Kumaraswamy tweeted criticising the case towards Mr. Tikait on fees of creating provocative speeches in Shivamogga and Haveri. In his tweets, the JD(S) chief mentioned there was nothing provocative in Mr. Tikait’s statements calling upon farmers to stage protest towards the anti-farm legal guidelines in Bengaluru. “It is well within the rights granted by the Constitution to take up struggles and to give a call for struggle. Mr. Tikait did not call for assaulting or killing”, he mentioned and demanded the instances be withdrawn on the earliest.
Mr. Kumaraswamy questioned what number of BJP leaders would have confronted instances if the police had been to register instances for provocative speeches.
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