Watch: Stage Collapses As Rakesh Tikait And Other Farmer Leaders Address Mahapanchayat, All Fall Down

The video captures the exact moment of the stage collapsing as it focused on Tikait and other farm leaders.

Additionally, in a viral video Tikait can 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.