Salman Khan should apologise to Bishnoi community: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait
Prayagraj (UP), Oct 27: Amidst reports of a threat to Bollywood star Salman Khan's life from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said the actor should apologise to the Bishnoi community because if a dispute is resolved by apologising, then there is nothing wrong in it.
Tikait, who was here to take part in a farmers' "Mahapanchayat", said this while replying to a reporter's question on jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
"If any dispute ends by apologising to the Bishnoi community, then what is wrong in it? If a mistake has been made knowingly or unknowingly, then what does Salman Khan lose in apologising?" the farmer leader asked.
He also alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government, which had promised free electricity to farmers, has started installing meters in their fields.
"We do not know how free electricity will come from the meters," he said while talking to reporters after the "Kisan Mahapanchayat" held at Mundera here.
"If meters are to be installed, then they (BJP) will have to bring it in their manifesto before the 2027 (Uttar Pradesh) Assembly polls. Otherwise a meter will not be installed in a farmer's field," Tikait said.
Regarding the price of paddy, he alleged that the crop is being procured from farmers in Purvanchal's Jaunpur, Mirzapur and Ballia at the rate of Rs 1,200 per quintal.
"The same is the case with maize. In Bihar alone, farmers have suffered a loss of Rs 1 lakh crore by selling crops at low prices. This is the condition of all the states," Tikait said.
"A big conspiracy is being hatched to make people live as bonded labourers of the government. This government wants to make India a country of workers because there is a huge shortage of workers in industries," he added.
On the Agniveer scheme for short-term military recruitment, Tikait claimed that those recruited under it will have to work as security guards in the coming days and claimed that a particular business group needs 25,000 security guards.
"Agniveers will work as guards in the coming days because a particular (business) group alone needs 25,000 guards. This recruitment (of Agniveers) is being done for that. This country will become a labour-dominated country from an agriculture-dominated one," he said.
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Lungi-clad sub-inspector punished in MP's Mauganj after video shows him ill-treating woman
Mauganj (MP), Oct 27: A sub inspector was 'line attached' (taken off field duty as punishment) in Madhya Pradesh's Mauganj district after a video showing him ill-treating a woman while being clad in a 'lungi' went viral on social media, a police official said on Sunday.
Hata outpost in charge sub inspector Brihaspati Patel (50) has been 'line attached' after the video showed him clad in a lungi while on duty and ill-treating a woman who had come to lodge a complaint, Rewa Range Inspector General of Police Saket Pandey told PTI.
The additional superintendent of police was probing the incident at the outpost, which is some 50 kilometres from the district headquarters, he said, adding an FIR has been lodged on the complaint of the woman.
In the video, Patel can be seen shouting at the woman, telling her "not to act smart", and then driving her away while another woman is seated on the floor before him at the outpost.
MP Police के चौकी प्रभारी का वीडियो हो रहा वायरल, थाने में आई लड़की के साथ ऐसा व्यवहार, कब नपेंगे ? | MP Tak#MPTakLatestNews #Mauganj #MPPolice #ViralVideo pic.twitter.com/aydMCplnxq
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