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  • Assam flood: New areas affected, the third wave of flood due to heavy rains

    By PTI

    GUWAHATI: Fresh areas have been inundated in Assam as rainfall continued to lash several parts of the state, an official bulletin said on Thursday.

    Though the number of districts impacted by urban flooding has increased to nine against five districts on Wednesday, the number of affected people has come down to 50,839 from 69,750 on Wednesday, the bulletin said.

    Lakhimpur district is the worst-hit with over 37,000 reeling under the impact of the natural calamity.

    The northeastern state is currently experiencing the third wave of flood due to heavy rain since Monday.

    The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) bulletin said as many as 199 villages under 20 revenue circles are currently affected by the flood.

    The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at Nematighat in Jorhat and Tezpur, it added.

    Two embankments — one each in Biswanath and Dibrugarh — have been damaged.

    Erosion has been reported from Biswanath, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Majuli, Goalpara and Tinsukia districts.

    The Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati, has forecast fairly widespread to scattered and isolated rainfall in several districts till Friday.

    GUWAHATI: Fresh areas have been inundated in Assam as rainfall continued to lash several parts of the state, an official bulletin said on Thursday.

    Though the number of districts impacted by urban flooding has increased to nine against five districts on Wednesday, the number of affected people has come down to 50,839 from 69,750 on Wednesday, the bulletin said.

    Lakhimpur district is the worst-hit with over 37,000 reeling under the impact of the natural calamity.

    The northeastern state is currently experiencing the third wave of flood due to heavy rain since Monday.

    The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) bulletin said as many as 199 villages under 20 revenue circles are currently affected by the flood.

    The Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level at Nematighat in Jorhat and Tezpur, it added.

    Two embankments — one each in Biswanath and Dibrugarh — have been damaged.

    Erosion has been reported from Biswanath, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Majuli, Goalpara and Tinsukia districts.

    The Regional Meteorological Centre, Guwahati, has forecast fairly widespread to scattered and isolated rainfall in several districts till Friday.

  • Assembly Polls 2022 updates: All eyes on Lakhimpur as phase four of UP election gets underway

    By Online Desk

    Voting for 59 Assembly constituencies spread over nine districts in Uttar Pradesh began on Wednesday morning.

    The polling started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.

    This is the fourth phase of the Assembly polls in the state, where elections are to be held in seven rounds.

    As many as 624 candidates are in the fray in the fourth phase.

    According to the Election Commission, 2.3 crore people, including 1.14 crore men and 99.3 lakh women, are eligible to vote, for which 24,643 polling booths and 13,817 poling centres have been set up in this phase.

    The districts where the poling is being held are Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur.

  • Lakhimpur Kheri violence: SKM suspends Yogendra Yadav over visiting BJP worker’s house

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Thursday suspended social activist Yogendra Yadav for a month for visiting the family of a BJP worker who was killed in the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

    Yadav has been a member of the outfit’s core committee.

    A senior farmer leader said the decision was taken at a general body meeting of the SKM, which has been spearheading the nationwide protest against the Centre’s farm laws.

    “In its meeting, the SKM suspended Yogendra Yadav for a month as he had visited the family of a BJP worker who had died in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri,” he said.

    “He (Yadav) cannot participate in the meetings and other activities of Samyukta Kisan Morcha,” the farmer leader added.

    Yadav had attended the SKM’s general body meeting on Thursday.

    Eight people were killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.

    Four of the eight victims were farmers, who were allegedly knocked down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers.

    Angry farmers then allegedly lynched some people in the vehicles.

    The other dead included two BJP workers and their driver.

  • Lakhimpur violence case: SIT releases photos of six suspects

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on Tuesday released pictures of six people standing near an SUV, which was set ablaze during the October 3 incident.

    It has assured that details of those giving information will not be revealed besides informers will be given due rewards.

    The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh had set up the SIT to investigate the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.

    “The SIT team probing the October 3 violence has got some photos and videos. We are releasing photographs and appeal to people to identify them,” an SIT official said.

    “Six photographs have been released for identification,” he said.

    The SIT has already issued notices to over three dozen farmers for questioning in a case related to the lynching of BJP workers.

    Two FIRs were registered at the Tikonia police station after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence.

    In the first FIR, MoS Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish was named as accused besides 15 to 20 unidentified persons.

    Another FIR was lodged at the same police station on the basis of a complaint by Sumit Jaiswal, who has now been arrested.

    In the complaint, Jaiswal, a resident of Ayodhyapuri here, identified himself as a BJP worker who was on his way to welcome Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya for a wrestling event at Banbirpur, when the violence broke out.

    So far, 10 people, including the MoS’ son Ashish Mishra, have been arrested in the case.

    The farmers alleged that Ashish Misra was present in one of the vehicles during the incident, a charge which has been denied by him.

    The minister’s son claimed he was present in Banbirpur village at the time to attend a wrestling event.

    Among eight killed, four were farmers, one was a local journalist and three were BJP workers.

  • Lakhimpur incident: SKM to hold ‘Rail Roko’ on October 18 to demand dismissal, arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said ‘Rail Roko’ protests will be held across the country on October 18 to demand the dismissal and arrest of Union Minister Ajay Mishra in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

    In a statement, the umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s three agri laws, said “protests will only be intensified until justice is secured” in the Lakhimpur Kheri case.

    The SKM said during the ‘rail roko’ protest, all train traffic will be stopped for six hours from 10 am till 4 pm on Monday.

    “To press for its demand for MoS Home Ajay Mishra’s dismissal and arrest, so that justice can be secured in the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre, Samyukt Kisan Morcha has announced a nation-wide Rail Roko program tomorrow.

    “SKM put out a call to its constituents to stop rail traffic for six hours on October 18, between 10 am and 4 pm. The SKM asks for this action to be taken up peacefully, without any destruction and damage of any kind to any railway property,” it said.

    Four of the eight people who died in the violence on October 3 were farmers, allegedly knocked down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers.

    Angry farmers then allegedly lynched some people in the vehicles.

    The other dead included two BJP workers and their driver.

    Farmers have claimed that Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles, an allegation denied by him and Ajay Mishra who say they can produce evidence to prove he was at an event at that time.

    Ashish Mishra was arrested in the case on October 9.

    The SKM also claimed that at effigy-burning events across Uttar Pradesh, several farmer leaders were put under house arrested while some were detained.

    SKM condemns this and asks the UP government not to suppress the right to protest of ordinary citizens, it added.

  • Lakhimpur violence: Autopsy of deceased farmers confirms death due to hemorrhage, trauma; no bullet injury found  

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: In the latest development in connection with the Lakhimpur violence which claimed 9 lives including four farmers on Sunday, the preliminary post-mortem report of the deceased farmers shows that none of them had received bullet injury.

    According to sources, the autopsy report claimed that all four died due to excessive blood loss resulted from haemorrhage and trauma.

    Notably, the protesting farmers had been claiming that at least one of the four deceased farmers had received the bullet fired by Ashish Mishra, son of Ajay Mishra, union minister of state for home during the Sunday violence.

    However, as per the medical experts, haemorrhage and subsequent blood loss could be due to several reasons with ‘impact injury’ by some heavy object being one of them. Thus the possibility of the deceased having got trampled under some vehicle could not be ruled out.

    According to Dr Sangeeta Bhatia, a general practitioner, haemorrhage leads to internal bleeding which could result in the death if the magnitude of the bleeding is excessive. “However, anything conclusively could not only be said in this case as the report is preliminary nature of haemorrhage is not known. Anything could be inferred only after the detailed report,” she added.

    Earlier, the protesting farmers agreed to get the autopsy conducted on the bodies of the deceased farmers after they reached an understanding with the state government. The sources claimed that a panel of five doctors under videography conducted the post mortem examination.

    Meanwhile, the identity of four BJP workers, including the driver of Union minister Ajay Mishra, who were allegedly beaten to death by the angry farmers, has also been established.

    The driver was Hari Om Mishra whose vehicle, as per the Minister’s aides, was pelted with stones in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. These aides claim that Hari Om lost control over the wheels after being allegedly hit by a stone in his head, overturning the vehicle that crushed at least two farmers. Mishra is also said to be associated with the BJP Yuva Morcha.

    The vehicle also had BJP’s zonal chief Shyam Sundar and booth president Shubham Mishra, who were allegedly beaten with sticks and stones by agitating farmers. Later, their vehicle was set on fire. Later, the body of Ashish Pandey of Yuva Vahini was also recovered.

    A local reporter of Sadhna channel, Raman Kashyap, was also reportedly attacked, and succumbed to the injuries on Monday. He was missing since Sunday evening and his body was identified by his family early on Monday morning. There is however no official version of events yet on who attacked the journalist.Functionaries close to minister Teni said three others were grievously injured in the clash and “are undergoing treatment at the local district hospital.”

    The three injured have been identified by the locals as Lav Kush, resident of Banbirpur, Teni’s ancestral village, Ashish from Tara Nagar and Shekhar from Lucknow.

    Meanehile, Lakhimpur district administration confirmed the names of four farmers who died in the incident — Gurvinder Singh, 20, from village Makronia in Nanpara, 35-year-old Daljit Singh of Banjara in Nanpara, Nakshatra Singh, 65, from Nayapurva village in Dhaurhara, and 20-year-old Lavprit Singh of Chaukra farm in Palia Kalan.