Varun Gandhi shares video of SUV pulling down farmers, calls for arrest of culprits

BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Tuesday shared a video clip purportedly exhibiting an SUV mowing down farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, and demanded that police instantly determine and arrest these concerned within the incident.

The authenticity of the video has not but been verified.

“This video of automobiles intentionally crushing farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri will shake anybody’s soul. Police ought to take cognisance of the video, determine the house owners of those automobiles and their occupants, determine others concerned within the incident and instantly arrest them,” Gandhi stated.

Eight folks died and a number of other others have been injured on Sunday within the bloodiest conflict because the farmers’ protest over the Centre’s agri legal guidelines started final yr.

4 of the lifeless have been farmers, allegedly knocked down by automobiles pushed by BJP workers travelling to welcome Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to an occasion within the space.

The others have been BJP staff and their driver who have been allegedly pulled out of the automobiles and lynched. Two automobiles have been set on fireplace.

Whereas the BJP has formally maintained a guarded silence over the matter, with the Uttar Pradesh authorities assuring a radical probe, Varun Gandhi has been vocal in empathising with the farmers.