A security guard looks at an SUV destroyed in yesterday’s violence during a farmers’ protest in Tikoniya area of Lakhimpur Kheri district.
The United Kisan Morcha on Sunday “warned” the Center and the Uttar Pradesh government that its deadline to sack and arrest Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra is expiring on October 11, failing which it will protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Will launch a phased protest.
Earlier this week, the SKM had issued an ultimatum, asking the government to take action against Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra by October 11, failing which they would launch a phased program to protest the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. .
SKM, an umbrella body of 40 farmers’ unions spearheading the anti-agriculture laws movement, said, “Justice is clearly being compromised because Ajay Mishra is a minister in the central government.”
“SKM has warned the Government of India and the Government of Uttar Pradesh that the October 11 deadline given by it is expiring. Awaiting the arrest and dismissal of Ajay Mishra, apart from the arrest of all the culprits in the Lakhimpur Kheri farmer murder case.” Is.” .
Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son, who was arrested in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, was sent to judicial custody for 14 days and placed under COVID quarantine at the district jail in Lakhimpur Kheri, officials said on Sunday.
Four of the eight people killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence were farmers, who were allegedly hit by a vehicle carrying BJP workers. Following this, the enraged farmers allegedly thrashed some people in the vehicles to death. The other dead include two BJP workers and their driver.
The farmers have claimed that Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, refuting the allegation made by him and his father, saying they can produce evidence to prove that he was at an event at the time.
The farmers’ unions had said that if the government did not accede to their demands by October 11, they would take out a ‘Shaheed Kisan Yatra’ from Lakhimpur Kheri with the ashes of the slain farmers.
The SKM had called for ‘Rail Roko’ protests across the country from 10 am to 4 pm on October 18 and ‘Mahapanchayat’ in Lucknow on October 26.
“Planning, meetings are being held in various states to implement SKM’s call for justice in Lakhimpur Kheri farmer murder case,” the SKM statement said on Sunday.
The SKM pointed out that Ajay Mishra, in the Modi government and that too as Minister of Home Affairs, is completely “unstable and unimaginable”.
“It is evident that the Minister of State for Home is involved in promoting enmity and enmity, criminal conspiracy and murder, as well as harboring criminals and obstructing justice and tampering/ concealment of evidence,” the statement said. The role was
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