Bharatiya Kisan Union President Mahendra Singh Tikait died in Muzaffarnagar Sunday morning due to protracted illness from cancer. 76 years old, Tikait, who also served as the council head of Baliyan Khap, was suffering from bone cancer since a year and died at his son’s residence here, family sources said.
Scores of people, mostly farmers, paid tributes to the senior farmer leader. His cremation would be held on Monday at BKU headquarters in Sisauli.
He was born in 1935 at village Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. He was a Jat of Raghuvanshi gotra and Choudhary of Balyan Khap.