The BKU leader, who was in Iglas here on Tuesday in connection with a private function, was speaking to media persons during his visit.”This agitation would turn into a nationwide agitation of farmers who are protesting against the unjust manner in which farmlands are being acquired by the government without paying just and full payment to the farmers,” he said.He said that the Gautam Buddh Nagar protest has been put off till December 9 to give the government some time to resolve this long-standing dispute between farmers in that district and the authorities which had been continuously delaying the process of payment of full compensation as envisaged by the Land Acquisition Act 2013.Tikait said that the farmers of Gautam Buddh Nagar are not alone in this protest and representatives of different farmers’ organisations have been stationed there to assist them in their quest for justice.He said it has become a regular practice of the present government to acquire farmlands at low prices and to add to the farmers’ woes, even the agreed amount of compensation is delayed inordinately.”I will shortly be visiting Gautam Buddh Nagar to converse with the local leaders of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha during their ongoing negotiations with officials of the state government,” he said.The farmers had gathered near the Mahamaya flyover and left for Delhi on Monday demanding proper compensation for their land acquired by the government, but were stopped by the police near Dalit Prerna Sthal, after which they sat on dharna there.Massive traffic snarls had caused inconvenience to commuters crossing the Delhi-Noida border as police had set up multiple layers of barricades and deployed heavy security to stop the march, which coincided with Parliament’s Winter Session.
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