Thousands of farmers, many arriving on tractors from across Uttar Pradesh, converged at the protest site near the All Saint’s Cathedral in Civil Lines on Tuesday for the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Tikait faction’s “’Dera Dalo, Ghera Dalo Kisan Samman Mahapanchayat”, mounting pressure on the government over a wide range of agrarian and civic issues despite the absence of BKU leader Rakesh Tikait