UP Govt trying to protect culprits of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, says BKU

Ludhiana, October 8

Condemning the violence against peacefully protesting farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharti Kisan Union-Kadian (BKU) has alleged that the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh was making nefarious efforts to protect real culprits. Rather than registering cases against the perpetrators, the state police had helped Ashish Mishra in escaping from the spot and even now, sincere efforts were not being made to apprehend Ashish Mishra and other culprits, said BKU president Harmeet Singh Kadian.

The BKU president said three police teams formed in Uttar Pradesh was just an eyewash to befool the public and the aggrieved farmers.

“Real purpose of these police teams is to save the culprits, and especially Ashish Mishra, son of the Union Minister of State,” he said.

Kadian demanded a judicial probe of the killing of farmers under the supervision of the apex court, immediate arrest of Ashish and other culprits and dismissal of the Union Minister of State from the Cabinet as till he remained in the office, an impartial probe into the incident was not possible.

The BKU leader said farmers’ bodies would chalk out a strategy for further agitation to seek justice after the bhog and ‘antim ardas’ of the martyred farmers on October 12. — OC

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