Lakhimpur Kheri violence. The incident has triggered a major political storm in election-bound Uttar Pradesh with opposition parties accusing the Adityanath government of shielding the culprits.
The Lakhimpur Kheri incident has triggered a major political storm with opposition parties accusing the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of shielding the culprits.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reaches Lakhimpur Kheri, where 8 persons including 4 farmers lost their lives in violence on Sunday.
Giant replica of a tractor being used by farmers to till land is placed at the entrance of Dumdum Park Bharat Chakra pandal in the northern fringes of Kolkata, depicting their struggle.
On way to violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri, Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi reaches Sitapur to join party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who was put under detention in a guest house.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders sit on dharna at Lucknow airport. "We want to go in our car (to Lakhimpur Kheri) but they (police) want to take us in their vehicle. I asked them to let me go in my personnel vehicle. They're planning something. I'm sitting here," Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi at Lucknow airport.
Chhattisgarh and Punjab governments on Wednesday announced financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh each to families of four farmers and a journalist killed in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
CM Kejriwal demanded that accused in the case be arrested and Union Minister of State for Home, Ajay Kumar Mishra, whose son has been named as accused in the incident, be sacked.
The meeting lasted over half an hour and it is understood that Mishra might have made his position clear in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case
Despite repeated requests from security forces to follow the set protocol, Rahul Gandhi and his team insisted on using their own vehicles to go to Lakhimpur Kheri.
The UP Police has detained Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who wanted to go to the site of Sunday's violence and meet families that lost loved ones.
The FIR filed by Lakhimpur Kheri police clearly mentioned the minister’s son Ashish Mishra as the prime accused. He has been accused of ramming his vehicle into a crowd of farmers and firing from his pistol.
Navjot Singh Sidhu has slammed the Uttar Pradesh Police for detaining party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and accused it of violating the spirit of the Constitution.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is in detention at the PAC compound in Sitapur since Monday morning.
Rahul Gandhi said that the BJP governments at the Centre and Uttar Pradesh are attacking farmers and said that he will visit Lakhimpur Kheri where 8 people lost their lives in Sunday's violence.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Uttar Pradesh Police booked Priyanka and 10 others over apprehensions of breach of the peace as opposition leaders attacked the BJP and the government on her detention in Sitapur.
"An expert panel of doctors had come from Lucknow to monitor the post mortem, which was recorded in compliance with the orders from the CMO," Bahraich DM said.
Tikait, who visited the house of Gurvinder Singh, a farmer from Moharnia village here killed in the Lakhimpur violence, said the minister's son was seen by many people at the spot on the fateful day.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with a 5-member party delegation is expected to visit violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday (today), however, he has been denied permission by CM Yogi Adityanath government.
Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri witnessed largescale violence on October 3 in which eight people were killed. Four of the eight dead were farmers, allegedly knocked down by vehicles driven by BJP workers travelling to welcome UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya to an event in the area.
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