Mahendra Singh Tikait

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Mahendra Singh Tikait (6 October 1935 – 15 May 2011) was a noted Indian leader of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh state. He was born in 1935 at village Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. He was the President of the 'Bharatiya Kisan Union'. Tikait died in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on 15 May 2011 due to protracted illness from bone cancer at the age of 76.

Remarks against Mayawati

Tikait was arrested and later released on bail on 2 April 2008 for allegedly making derogatory and caste-based remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati at a rally in Bijnore on 30 March 2008.[1] Almost 6000 men from the security forces had surrounded Tikait in his village. The entire row sparked off after Tikait had referred to Mayawti by her caste.

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