Slamming the Centre over the Minimum Support Price (MSP) issue, Tikait alleged that the assurance that the system would continue is 'only on paper' while farmers want it in reality.
Chugh added that the UP government has registered criminal cases in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and instituted a judicial commission under a retired high court judge.
Families of farmers killed insist that Ashish Mishra, son of Union MoS Ajay Mishra Teni, was in the convoy that hit the protesters, but allegedly fled with police help.
A Supreme Court bench said right to protest was not absolute and validity of farmers protests was under question since farm laws were already in abeyance.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav was also detained outside his residence where he staged a sit-in after being stopped from visiting Lakhimpur, where 8 people, including farmers, died Sunday.
There has been no official confirmation about the deaths from administration in Lakhimpur. MoS for Home Ajay Mishra Teni has been under fire from farmers over a speech.
The decision came amid the protest by farmers in Haryana and Punjab against the government's decision to postpone procurement of paddy under MSP operation to 11 October.
The farmer bodies under Sanyukt Kisan Morcha made the appeal so that political parties electioneering don't divert the attention away from the farmers' protests.
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