Cong protests against Lakhimpur Kheri incident

Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh/Payal/ Raikot, October 5

Activists of various wings of the Congress, led by their respective leaders, continue to organise protest against the alleged attempt of the UP Government to protect the main accused of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which peacefully protesting farmers were mowed down by a vehicle of BJP activists, led by son of Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra Teni, on Sunday.

Besides organising dharnas, the protesters burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Fatehgarh Sahib MP Dr Amar Singh Boparai, Amargarh legislator Surjit Singh Dhiman and Payal MLA Lakhvir Singh were among those who lashed out at the BJP leadership over the heart-wrenching incident of Lakhimpur Kheri, which claimed lives of four farmers and left many injured seriously on Sunday.

Demanding immediate arrest of the main accused, Ashish Mishra, and his accomplice, MP Dr Amar Singh Boparai said the Uttar Pradesh Police made a mockery of the system by apprehending Congress leader Priyanka Vadra and letting the accused roam freely. Lashing out at the Union Government, Dr Boparai said: “The incident has also proved that the Central Government was completely insensitive towards the peasantry of the nation which has lost hundreds of lives

during the eleven-month-long protest at the Delhi borders. Had Prime Minister Narendra Modi and

his colleagues tried to redress genuine grievance of the protesting farmers, these lives could have been saved.”

The MP sought immediate repeal of these laws for the welfare of the farming community.