Naresh Singh Tikait, the elder son of Mahendra Singh Tikait, is the president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU). He is the head of the Balyan Khap Panchayat, which he inherited from his father, who had become the Chaudhary (head) of Balyan Khap at the age of eight.
Naresh Tikait belongs to the Jaat community.
Naresh Tikait’s father, Mahendra Singh Tikait, was considered a messiah of farmers. The Jat farmer leader who headed the Bharatiya Kisan Union for nearly 25 years, died of bone cancer on 15 May 2011 at the age of 75.
Naresh Tikait’s mother’s name was Baljori Devi.
Naresh Tikait has three younger brothers; Rakesh Tikait, Surendra Tikait, and Narendra Tikait, and two sisters. Rakesh Tikait is the national spokesperson of Bharatiya Kisna Union (BKU) since 1997.
Surendra Tikait is the manager of a sugar mill in Meerut, while the youngest brother, Narendra Tikait, handles farming.
Balyan is the name of a union of Jaats of Raghuvanshi gotra found in Western Uttar Pradesh and in some parts of Haryana. The head of Balyan Khap is referred to as Chaudhary. After the demise of Mahendra Singh Tikait in 2011, Naresh Singh Tikait took charge of Balyan Khap Panchayat. Also, the hereditary title “Tikait” used by Naresh and the male members of the Tikait family was initially conferred to the head of Baliyan Khap by Raja Harshavardhana, the Jat ruler of Thanesar in the 7th century. Since then, it is being used by every head of the Baliyan Khap and his male family members as their surname.
Naresh Tikait took over the reigns of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) after the demise of his father in 2011. Since then, he has participated and led many movements for the rights of farmers.
In October 2018, as the head of BKU Naresh Tikait gave the call for Kisan Kranti Yatra from Tikait Ghat in Haridwar to Delhi. This was done to lay pressure on the union government to fulfil the various demands of farmers which comprised unconditional loan waiver for farmers, clearing of dues by sugar mills, higher prices for crops, free electricity for farms and a cut in diesel prices. The farmers also demanded implementation of Swaminathan Committee Report. As thousands of protestors reached the Delhi border, section 144 was imposed in East and Northeast Delhi. Over 3,000 security personnel from Delhi Police and UP Police were deployed in the area to stop farmers from entering the national capital. Police had to use water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Eventually, the union government ministers met Tikait and other farmer leaders and persuaded them to end the agitation. Tikait and other leaders agreed to the government’s assurance to set up a committee that would look at the demands of farmers, and thus the protest was called off.
Before Naresh could officially call back the BKU protestors from Delhi, a video of Rakesh Tikait breaking down infront of media cameras went viral. Consequently, hundreds of BKU supporters gathered outside Tikait’s house in Sisauli, and people from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh started moving towards the Ghazipur protest site. Rakesh Tikait’s tears proved to be an elixir for the weakening protests. At the midnight, Naresh, who had earlier agreed to vacate the Ghazipur protest site, announced a mahapanchayat in Muzaffarnagar to revive the movement once again.
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