Claims Of Farmer Leader Rakesh Tikait's Arrest Is Fake News, Clarifies Delhi Police

Tikait who had steadfastly refused to call off the protest against farm laws despite Covid-19's second wave and the consequent lockdowns, was recently accused of illegally occupying a farmer's land in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar and destroying the crop in the field.

In the video, farmer leader Tikait could be heard as telling the protesting farmers that the government is playing hardball (“zyada kaidi pad rahi hai sarkar”) and the farmers need to be armed with sticks (“lathi-danda”) in the rally.