Loss of life of 4 protesting farmers: Congress seeks Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s sacking, son’s arrest

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Monday demanded the dismissal of minister of state for residence affairs Ajay Mishra and the arrest of his son over the latter’s alleged involvement within the dying of 4 protesting farmers at Lakhimpur in Uttar Pradesh. The AICC additionally known as upon its supporters to stage protests in opposition to the mowing down of farmers at Lakhimpur and likewise over the detention of senior celebration chief Priyanka Vadra and others by the Uttar Pradesh administration.

In an announcement, AICC normal secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal mentioned: “It’s not a coincident that Union residence minister Ajay Mishra’s son led this ugly homicide, because the minister himself threatened the peacefully protesting farmers with violence… The Congress celebration calls for his quick sacking from the put up and arrest of these liable for this incident… It’s a disgrace that the prime minister and residential minister, to whom the minister straight experiences, haven’t uttered a phrase on this chilly blooded homicide.”

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, whose plane was not allowed to land at Lucknow airport – from the place he was to proceed to Lakhimpur – returned to Delhi to carry a press convention on the Congress headquarters and focused the Yogi regime. “The protesting farmers have been crushed in UP. It is their message that if anybody protests in opposition to them, they are going to be crushed. The residents’ proper stand curbed in UP,” Baghel mentioned. “I want to know on what grounds I used to be not allowed to land in Lucknow… Do we’d like passports and visas to go to Uttar Pradesh now?”