Rakesh Tikait symbolically supports Sikhs With Orange Turban. He stated that Sikhs are brave people and they have been targeted and defamed. Rakesh Singh Tikait in several interviews has reiterated that Sikhs have become victims of media defamation.

Rakesh Tikait, a farmer leader who gave a new lease of life to the peasant struggle by informing the people of Punjab, was supported by the entire Sikh Panth under the leadership of Gursharan Singh Chhina, a youth leader from Majha.

Gursharan Singh Chhina, a youth leader who accompanied a large number of youths at the Ghazipur border, honored Rakesh Tikait with a turban and a headgear.