Shiv Sena, NCP, Congress announce ‘Maharashtra bandh’ on October 11 over Lakhimpur-Kheri violence | Mumbai News – Times of India

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Wednesday passed a resolution expressing regret over the deaths of farmers in the Lakhimpur-Kheeri violence.
The minister stood in silence as a mark of respect and called the deaths unfortunate.
Chief Minister in cabinet meeting Uddhav Thackeray The incident strongly condemned and criticized BJP Led the government in Uttar Pradesh for abuse of power.
“To condemn the barbarity of trampling farmers under a car, the three parties have called for Maharashtra Closed on October 11,” the cabinet minister said and NCP head of state Jayant Patil.
He said that no essential services would be affected during the bandh.
Patil said, “The BJP is trying to stop the farmers’ protests across the country in a barbaric manner. Even after a few days of the Lakhimpur-Kheeri incident, no arrests have been made. And it is necessary to register a protest against such incidents.” ”
announcement a day later Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut advocated joint opposition action against the BJP. In an editorial in Saamana, the army said that the one who ordered the firing on the farmers in Jallianwala Bagh was a British. It said that the one who crushed freedom fighter Babu Jenu under a truck in Mumbai (during the freedom struggle), while he was protesting against foreign clothes, was also a British. But, in Lakhimpur-Kheeri the son of a Union minister is the one who tramples on the farmers fighting for their rights, the Shiv Sena alleged.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday said the party will protest and launch a “jail bharo movement” if their leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is not released by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
BJP leader Devendra FadnavisOn the other hand, said that the Maharashtra government has ignored the hardships of the farmers who ruined their crops due to heavy rains.
“The farmer of Maharashtra has been ignored. There is no decision to help him. It is an opportunistic government. They don’t care about farmers, all this is being done for political motive,” Fadnavis said.

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