Burning Effigies, Rail Roko, Mahapanchayat: Farmers' Plans To Protest Killings
NDTV
Eight people died after a SUV - a Mahindra Thar - owned by Union Minister Ajay Mishra rammed into a group of farmers holding a peaceful protest in Lakhimpur Kheri
Farmers' groups will burn effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 15, and hold a nationwide 'rail roko' on October 18 and a mahapanchayat in Lucknow on October 26 to protest the violence and death of eight people, including four farmers, in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday.
They have also demanded the sacking of junior Union Home Minister Ajay Mishra and the arrest of his son Ashish, who remains a free man despite being named as a murder accused in the FIR.
"Farmers from across the country will reach Lakhimpur Kheri on October 12... what happened there was no less than the Jallianwala Bagh and we request all civic organisations to take out candle marches in their cities at 8 pm (on October 12)," Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav said today.
"Farmers will go to every state with the ashes (of those farmers who died in Lakhimpur Kheri) and immersions will be done... Dussehra is on October 15 and all farmers will burn effigies of Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah," he added.
