SKM stir in Lakhimpur enters second day, Tikait asks farmers to be ready for nationwide agitation

Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait exhorted farmers to be ready for a massive nationwide agitation over their demands as a 75-hour sit-in by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha in Lakhimpur Kheri seeking the removal of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra and a law on MSP entered the second day on Tuesday. "If SKM gets weakened, governments will get the better of farmers," Tikait stressed.