Mahendra Singh Tikait Dead

Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who spearheaded several movements for peasants' rights in northern India, died today due to bone cancer.Tikait (76), who was president of Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year. He died at the residence of his son and BKU General Secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, famil...

Farmer leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who spearheaded several movements for peasants' rights in northern India, died today due to bone cancer.Tikait (76), who was president of Bharatiya Kisan Union, had been suffering from bone cancer since last year. He died at the residence of his son and BKU General Secretary Rakesh Tikait in Muzaffarnagar, famil...