Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Adityanath government orders judicial inquiry
India | October 04, 2021 16:28 ISTThe government will also give Rs 10 lakh to those injured in the violence, said Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi.
The government will also give Rs 10 lakh to those injured in the violence, said Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Awasthi.
Navjot Sidhu, other Congress legislators including Madan Lal Jalalpur, Gurpreet Singh and several members of the Punjab Youth Congress sat outside the residence of the Governor Banwarilal Purohit and raised slogans against the BJP.
Gandhi and other Congress leaders accompanying her, including Deepender Hooda, had reached the Lakhimpur border in the morning but were not allowed to meet the families of the farmers who died in the violence during a protest a day earlier, the party alleged.
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.
As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on Sunday, said Uttar Pradesh police.
An FIR has been lodged against Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son and several others by the Tikunia police in Lakhimpur Kheri in connection with the violence that erupted on Sunday during a farmers' protest.
Varun Gandhi said a murder case under IPC section 302 should be lodged against those involved in the death of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri.
"They were miscreants among the farmers. Since the beginning of the farmers' agitation, many terror outfits including Babbar Khalsa are trying to create chaotic situation. This incident was a result of the same," says MoS Home Ajay Mishra Teni
Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav was taken into custody by police in Lucknow.
Politics has heated up on the violence that happened in UP's Lakhimpur on Sunday. Reacting to the same, Union Minister Ajay Mishra exclusively talked with India TV and revealed some unknown parts of the story.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined the 'Jhumur' dance of performers from tea tribes, in Assam's Lakhimpur on March 01. She is on a two-day visit to poll-bound Assam.
The three-year-old girl, who was found dead in a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, was raped before murder, a senior police officer said on Friday. This is the third such incident in the district in as many weeks.
Over 40 people have filed complaint against China's President Xi Jinping over coronavirus situation in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur.
Guwahati: Over 24,000 people have been affected by floods in four districts of Assam, officials said on Tuesday.State Disaster Management Authority officials said flood waters have entered parts of Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Darrang and Udalguri districts
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