Farmers To March To UP’s Lakhimpur, Block Trains, Hold ‘Mahapanchayat’

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Lakhimpur Kheri: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Saturday sought dismissal and immediate arrest of union minister for state Ajay Mishra and his son for UP violence here.

While addressing a press conference, Yogendra Yadav and other farmer leaders, said that the minister should resign and accused must be arrested by the UP Police and they will burn effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders on Dusshera.

He said that union has decided the five-point plan including an ‘antim ardas’ and ‘bhog ceremony’ on October 12 for the farmers killed at Tikona, Lakhimpur Kheri, and a farmers’ mahapanchayat in Lucknow on October 26.

“A Rail Roko on October 18 has also been planned and we appealed all supporters to either come to Lakhimpur Kheri for the ‘antim ardas’ or remember those who had died at their local gurudwara, temple, mosque or church or the protest site,” he said.