Farmers relent in Lakhimpur Kheri after Tikait assures action against culprits
The Hindu
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A day after four farmers were mowed to death in a violent incident involving the convoy of a BJP Minister at the Centre, hundreds of farmers predominantly from the Sikh community landed at the site of the incident in Tikonia.
For several hours, the farmers parked a tractor next to the ground where the incident took place, and kept on display in glass enclosures the bodies of the four dead farmers. Farmers said they would not budge from the site and would not carry out the last rites till their demands of action against Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra and his son Ashish were met. Religious slogans and chants resonated at the site.
However, around 1 p.m., the tension was defused after BKU spokesperson Rakesh Tikait emerged after a meeting with top Uttar Pradesh government officials and from a makeshift platform requested the protestors to ask the families of the victims gathered at the site to go home.













