Farmer chief Rakesh Tikait, who was in the town to address a press convention at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday, used to be attacked through a team of three men out of the blue in the course of the event.
As he was seated on the dias and another farmer chief used to be addressing the media, a man rushed to the stage and attacked Mr. Tikait with a tv mic. Before Mr. Tikait recovered from it, some other man threw black ink on him. One of the attackers shouted slogans saying, “Modi, Modi”.
Other farmers in the hall soon rushed to catch the culprits. As they tried to flee, some threw chairs at them and they have been quickly caught and exceeded over to the police.
Mr. Tikait was once in the town to address allegations allegedly made by using some other farmer chief – Kodihalli Chandrashekhar – in a sting operation these days aired by using a Kannada information channel. Mr. Chandrashekhar had allegedly claimed Mr. Tikait had been attempting to broker an cease to the 13-month-long farmers’ movement in New Delhi via taking cash and colluding with the union government.
The police have detained three individuals and taken them to High Grounds police station for inquiry.
“ It is a conspiracy by way of the BJP and failure on section of the authorities to furnish protection cover regardless of requests being made a day before the programme,” one of the organisers alleged.
Mr. Tikait, speakme to media persons, condemned the physical attack on him at the press convention formerly in the day.
“I by no means expected a physical assault in Karnataka. A media channel that had completed the sting operation used to be asking provocative questions with an purpose to amplify their TRP. Then a individual walked up to the stage and hit me with a mic. Luckily I used my hand to block the blows, failing which I would have suffered a head injury. My arms are swollen,” he said, adding the incident used to be a failure of the State government. “There were intelligence people in the room. How did this happen? This used to be a well pre planned attack. I demand the police habits a truthful probe into the incident and deliver to book all these in the back of the incident,” he said.
Another farmer leader Yuddhaveer Singh, who used to be additionally existing at the press conference, said given that the attackers carried a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and shouted “Modi Modi”, it used to be up to the ruling dispensation to habits a honest probe.
State farmer leader Chukki Nanjundaswamy has introduced a black flag protest throughout the country on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Mr. Tikait denied all allegations made in opposition to him by using Mr. Chandrashekhar. “The allegations are baseless and without any evidence. Farmer’s motion is a historic movement that pressured the Union Government to roll again the three farm laws. Yes, we have been negotiating with the government, but now not to broker end to protest,” he said.
When quizzed whether he suspected the involvement of Mr. Chandrashekhar, he said the police need to probe everyone, Mr. Chandrashekhar, the information channel or any others.
