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India | Oct 15, 2021, 02:41 PM ISTTikait had also said that the protest against the Lakhimpur violence would intensify if Ajay Mishra was not removed from his post.
Tikait had also said that the protest against the Lakhimpur violence would intensify if Ajay Mishra was not removed from his post.
Lakhimpur Kheri: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined a large gathering of farmers from various states in Tikonia village as part of last prayers in honour of the four deceased farmers and a journalist, who were killed in the recent violence.
On three people allegedly being lynched after five people, including four farmers, were mowed down by an SUV, Tikait said the act was committed by a crowd as a "reaction" to the incident.
Eight people were killed in the violence that broke out on October 3 after an SUV allegedly ran over a group of anti-farm law protesters who were demonstrating against the visit of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya at Tikonia-Banbirpur road in Lakhimpur Kheri. The dead included farmers, BJP workers and a journalist.
Eight people were killed on Sunday as violence erupted during a farmers' protest, claiming the lives of both farmers and BJP workers ahead of a visit to Lakhimpur by Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.
Speaking to India TV, Union Minister Ajay Mishra said that stones were pelted on the convoy, BJP workers were attacked, and a driver was lynched in the violence. He also alleged that there were some anti-national elements among farmers who somehow wants to create unrest in the country.
While leaving Ghazipur on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border for Lakhimpur Kheri, Tikait, the BKU’s national spokesperson, claimed that “several farmers” are feared dead during the violence in which two vehicles were also allegedly set on fire.
Tikait also mentioned that the organization which has sought permission to protest at Jantar Mantar is not affiliated with United Kisan Morcha.
BJP MLA and former minister Brijmohan Agrawal called the event a "state-sponsored" one with the Chhattisgarh CM and Congress ministers expressing support to save their faces.
Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will not go back until the laws are repealed and a law is enacted on MSP.
Indicating that farmers were ready to intensify their stir if their demands are not met, Tikait asked farmers "to keep their tractors ready", saying "these may be required anytime (to move towards) in Delhi".
The farmers have been protesting at Delhi borders against the three farm laws, which they fear will do away with the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the mercy of big corporations.
On Wednesday evening, a high-level meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister ML Khattar here, which, Home Minister Anil Vij said, had been convened in the wake of the apex court's orders last month.
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Rakesh Tikait has said that Asaduddin Owaisi is 'Chacha Jaan' of the BJP and that he will help the saffron party to return to power in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier in the day, a meeting of farm leaders with local administration in Karnal ended inconclusively with protesting farmers demanding action against SDM Ayush Sinha and an independent inquiry in the matter.
While farmers continue their sit-in protest at the mini-secretariat gate, DC Nishant Kumar Yadav, IG Mamta Singh and SP Gangaram Punia, other senior officers are still holding talks with them so that some positive solutions can be found, the Haryana government said in a statement.
Farmer unions had demanded action against officials over the lathi-charge against protesters on August 28 in Karnal. Otherwise, they had threatened farmers will lay siege on the Karnal mini-secretariat – a threat they appeared to be carrying out.
The Sanyukt Kisan Morcha's 'Kishan Mahapanchayat' was held at the Government Inter College grounds in Muzaffarnagar.
Thousands of farmers assembled at a 'mahapanchayat' in Muzaffarnagar, where BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said that the BJP should be given a drubbing in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
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