Thousands of farmers, farm workers, activists along with political leaders are expected to gather at Azad Maidan, for the kisan mahapanchayat on Sunday. A day before the mega event, the ashes of farmers killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence will be brought to the city after passing through various places in the state. The mahapanchayat is being organised after the Centre announced the repeal of the contentious farm acts.

Political parties and unions, led by the ruling Congress and NCP, which backed the mahapanchayat, addressed a media conference in the city on Wednesday. Congress's Maharashtra president Nana Patole and NCP's chief spokesperson and minister Nawab Malik said that political leaders will neither share the dais with farmer leaders, such as Rakesh Tikait, nor deliver speeches at the mahapanchayat, and instead sit in the audience.