The Samyukt Kisan Morcha has announced they will be holding a protest outside the offices of district magistrates and divisional commissioners across the country on Monday over the Lakhempur Kheri incident.
Farmers’ leaders Yogendra Yadav and Darshan Pal Singh also demanded a probe into the incident by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and not by the Uttar Pradesh administration. “To express our agitation against Sunday’s incident, the SKM calls for a protest outside the offices of district magistrates and divisional commissioners across the country between 10am and 1pm,” Singh said.
“To express our agitation against Sunday’s incident, the SKM calls for a protest outside the offices of district magistrates and divisional commissioners across the country between 10am and 1pm,” Singh said.
The farmer leaders alleged that Union minister of state for home Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son was in one of the SUVs.
“We demand that Union minister of state for home and Khiri MP Ajay Kumar Mishra be immediately dismissed from his post. A case under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the IPC should be registered against the minister’s son and other goons,” Singh and Yadav said at a virtual press conference.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait also reached Lakhimpur early on Monday. “We will first meet the farmers and villagers and discuss the situation with them. The future course of action will be done on the basis of the discussion with the villagers and farmers. Their decision will prevail,” Tikait told reporters at Banbirpur village, according to news agency PTI.
