Farmers from the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), who are currently holding Haryana Chief Minister (CM) M L Khattar’s constituency Karnal to ransom, plan to hold 17 mega meetings in cities, including Lucknow, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur, over the next six months and will call for an all-India strike on September 27.

       The strike will follow a meeting of many Opposition leaders – including some alliance partners of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – against the Union government’s farm laws on September 25 at Jind in Haryana. In the current circumstances, ...