Toeing Tikait line: 'Not sure' if BKU stays away from UP politics in 2022

The BKU had its first successful siege of Delhi in 1988 over low cane prices and upward revision of electricity and water rates

Gopi Kashyap, an office-bearer in the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU)’s youth wing, is not a kisan (farmer) at all. Nor is he a Jat. But he does belong to western Uttar Pradesh (Nithari village) and until recently, he was a dedicated supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“We sent Sharmaji (Mahesh Sharma, Union minister and Lok Sabha MP from the Gautam Buddh Nagar constituency) to Parliament twice. Now the very government we helped to form is telling us we are enemies of the nation!” Kashyap says incredulously.

He adds: “And what have they given us? You want to send your children