Today, on December 15, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi gave an adjournment notice in the Lok Sabha’s ongoing Winter Session to discuss the violent incident of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district that led to the deaths of eight persons on October 3.
Gandhi’s demand for discussion of the matter in the Lok Sabha came a day after the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Lakhimpur Kheri accepted the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) request to upgrade the chargesheet filed against the prime accused Ashish Mishra.
The Uttar Pradesh Police’s SIT had stated on December 13 that the incident was a deliberate act and not of negligence or callousness, and termed it a pre-planned conspiracy.
Gandhi, while talking to reporters outside the Parliament stated that he demands an immediate resignation of Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra, who is the father of the accused.
“A minister has tried to kill farmers. The Prime Minister knows as he is in his team. We raised the issue, but we were not allowed to discuss it even then. We were all silenced at the time after we wanted to discuss the issue,” Gandhi was quoted.
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In an application filed in the court yesterday on December 13, the investigator Vidya Ram Diwakar stated that the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri killings did not occur because of negligence or callousness, but was a planned conspiracy of attempt to murder while being armed with weapons.
Two months back, on October 3, a convoy of three SUVs, including one owned by Union Minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, had run over a group of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. In the violence, four farmers were killed. The family of a local journalist Raman Kashyap claims that he too died in the incident. Later in the violence, two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and a driver of the SUV owned by the minister were killed.
