On the road outside Bhokkadhedi, an hour from Muzaffarnagar, there is a charred patch, a reminder of violence that broke out on September 7. That day, Yogesh Kumar was returning from the Mahapanchayat in Nagla Mandaur in a convoy of tractor-trolleys. The rally was held to protest what the Jats called one-sided behaviour by the UP government in the killing of two Jat boys in the village of Kawwal. The boys were killed after they stabbed to death a boy called Shahnawaz.