Lakhimpur Kheri Incident: SP Demands Probe Monitored By Sitting Judge
Mumbai: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday demanded a sitting judge to oversee the probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed on Sunday.
Akhilesh Yadav said, “The demand of the Samajwadi Party is that an inquiry should be ordered under the supervision of the sitting judge.”
The SP leader, who was detained for violating prohibitory orders and kept in police custody before being released, later said that what the police did in Lakhimpur was what the British did to the protesters before independence.
“It was such a shameful act. The BJP has harassed farmers more than the British,” he said.
The SP leader said that the people of the state were disappointed with the BJP government and will give them a befitting response in the upcoming assembly elections. “We are again getting an opportunity to hold rath yatra & this time, it is a ‘Vijay Yatra’ of Samajwadi Party. As people of Uttar Pradesh are disappointed with the BJP government.”
As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on Sunday, said Uttar Pradesh police.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of several farmer unions, had alleged four farmers lost their lives in the incident. Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of several farmer unions, alleged that Ashish Mishra Teni, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni had arrived in a convoy on three vehicles around the time that farmers were dispersing from their protest at the helipad and mowed down farmers and towards the end also attacked SKM leader Tajinder Singh Virk directly, by trying to run a vehicle over him.
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