AAP team detained

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, October 5

An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) delegation on its way to Lakhimpur Kheri to offer condolences to the families of the deceased farmers was stopped and detained by the Uttar Pradesh Police at Nighasan check post. The delegation, led by AAP Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha and Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema, included MLAs Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Prof Baljinder Kaur and Amarjit Singh Sandoa. Sandhwan was deatined on his departure from Lucknow.

The delegation was to reach the house of the deceased in Banwaripur village first, but was stopped at the check post about 10 km from the village, where Chadha and other leaders were detained. Chadha said: “The heart-wrenching video that has surfaced clears the slightest of doubt in the minds of people for the BJP. The Punjab unit of AAP has demanded that the culprits should be immediately arrested and put behind bars by the Uttar Pradesh Police.

The AAP demanded Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra should be sacked with immediate effect for a fair investigation. The AAP also sought that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should visit the aggrieved families and apologise to them, along with repealing the farm laws and announcing the guarantee of MSP on all crops from there.

Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema said the farmers had been fighting for long against the three agricultural laws. In this movement, more than 700 farmers have been martyred; despite this the BJP was resorting to violence and killing the farmers.”