Release Priyanka, arrest minister's son, or we march to Lakhimpur Kheri, warns Navjot Singh Sidhu

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, October 5

Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu warned on Tuesday that his party would march towards Lakhimpur Kheri unless Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is released and Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish is arrested over the killings of farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri.

“If, by tomorrow, the Union Minister’s son behind the brutal murder of Farmers is not arrested, and our leader @PriyankaGandhi being unlawfully arrested, fighting for farmers is not released, the Punjab Congress will march towards Lakhimpur Kheri,” he said in a tweet.

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Vadra and some other party leaders were detained on Monday when they were going to meet the victims of the violence that erupted during a farmers’ protest in Lakhimpur Kheri a day earlier.

Eight people were killed as violence erupted during a farmers’ protest on Sunday. The violence, which came ahead of a visit to Lakhimpur by Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, killed farmers and some BJP workers.

Several Congress leaders including P Chidambaram have questioned the detention, calling it “totally illegal” and “unconstitutional”.