Battleground Lakhimpur Kheri: FIR against Union minister's son, Opposition leaders detained | 10 points

With tempers running high and the Opposition training its guns on the BJP-led state government after eight people were killed in the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri, here is all that has happened so far.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is on a hunger strike. Opposition leaders have been detained. Section 144 has been imposed in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. All this and much more has happened in the area in the past 24 hours after eight people were killed on Sunday as violence erupted during a farmers' protest, claiming the lives of both farmers and BJP workers ahead of a visit to Lakhimpur by Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

Two SUVs were set on fire by angry farmers in a clash near Banbirpur in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday, the bloodiest incident of violence since the protest over the farm laws enacted at the Centre began last year.