First of all, we'll tell you about the sting operation of Zee News which is currently the biggest news in the country. In this sting operation, you will clearly see the two faces of the farmer leaders who shut down India and you will understand what these leaders speak in front of the public and what is their form behind the scenes. This is a big betrayal with the innocent farmers of our country. The Hashtag Tikait Exposed created by us on this news is currently trending at number one on Twitter.
Now let us tell you about this sting operation.
Rakesh Tikait is the most prominent face of the farmers' movement on the borders of Delhi for the last 10 months. Naresh Tikait is his elder brother and is playing an active role in the farmers' movement. Our undercover team has done its sting operation on Naresh Tikait.
Our team met him in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, which is the home district of the Tikait family. Our team told Naresh Tikait that it has an agreement with a major Singapore-based company, which needs land in Uttar Pradesh to set up a jaggery factory.
Naresh Tikait was not showing much interest in talking to our team at first. But as soon as he came to know that a foreign company needed land for sugarcane cultivation and factory, he started showing interest in negotiating with us. Surprisingly, during this time, he did not tell us even once that farmers do not give their land to the industrialist, as he has said many times in the peasant movement.
He even told us that he would give 12 bighas of land to the Singapore company at the rate of Rs 10,000 rupees per bigha annually and would also help that company in setting up a jaggery factory. Naresh Tikait had said in the farmers' Mahapanchayat held in Muzaffarnagar recently that farmers should be careful while entering into agreements with companies because such companies can grab their land.
But in conversation with our undercover team, he did not mention any such thing. Naresh Tikait even told us that if the deal goes right, he will also get the company sugarcane for less than the minimum support price fixed by the government. He promised to get sugarcane at Rs 250 per quintal instead of the government rate of Rs 325.
Whereas during the farmers' movement, this same Naresh Tikait and his younger brother Rakesh Tikait talk to the government to increase the minimum support price of crops and also ask for a written guarantee from the government. Therefore, to understand the real character of these leaders, you should see our sting operation today. And you can also tweet on Hashtag - #TikaitExposed.
The price of sugarcane that Naresh Tikait is talking about reducing is called State Advisory Price. He has defended himself on this sting operation and said that he is not cheating the farmers.
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Behind the scenes, these farmer leaders say something else and block the country by protesting against the agricultural laws on the streets. That's why today we want to ask the whole country, do you want India open or do you want India closed? Today, a handful of farmers of our country, with the support of opposition parties, tried to shut down the world's largest democracy with a population of 135 crores, but they forgot that 135 crore people of India will neither stop nor let farmers decide for themselves. That's why today we want to ask Rakesh Tikait and his companions that who will decide whether the people of this country will go to work today or not? Who gave them the right to decide whether the roads of this country will be open today or not? These people consider their protest a democratic right, but they do not accept the decisions of the same democratically elected government.
