Day 2 of SKM stir in Lakhimpur; Tikait calls for another nationwide protest
BKU leader Rakesh Tikait exhorted farmers to be ready for a nationwide agitation over their demands as a 75-hour sit-in by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha here seeking the removal of Union minister Ajay Mishra and a law on MSP entered the second day on Friday. The protesting farmers have announced to take out a protest march to the office of the district magistrate on Saturday, the last day of the protest. This was announced in a joint statement issued by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leaders. The SKM leaders will share at an appropriate moment the time, place and nature of the nationwide agitation, Tikait told the protesting farmers and called for strengthening the Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions. "If the SKM gets weakened, governments will get the better of farmers," Tikait stressed as representatives of the BKU-Chaduni faction, which is not a part of the SKM, reached the protest site to express solidarity with farmers. Farmers from different states on Friday reached the dharna20-08-2022
