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  • Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Sidhu ends hunger strike after Union Minister’s son appears before cops

    By ANI

    LAKHIMPUR KHERI: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu ended his hunger strike on Saturday after the son of MoS Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, Ashish Mishra, appeared before the crime branch in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

    Sidhu on Friday had started a hunger strike in Lakhimpur at the house of journalist Raman Kashyap, who died in the violence on October 3. Sidhu was demanding the arrest of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra.

    As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on October 3, said Uttar Pradesh police. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday filed an FIR for murder against Ashish Mishra.

    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 arrived with 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.

    However, Ashish Mishra refuted SKM’s allegations and said he was not present at the spot where the incident took place.

  • Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Sidhu sits on ‘maun vrat’ at late journalist’s house

    By Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Congress leader Navjot Singh Siddhu, who, on Friday visited Lakhimpur Kheri in connection with the Sunday incident, sat on a maun vrat (fasting for silence) at the residence of deceased journalist Raman Kashyap who was killed in the violence.

    Sidhu, who paid a visit to the late journalist’s house in Nighasan Tehsil in the district, said the silent agitation would continue till the accused in the case were arrested.

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    Sidhu has proceeded with a huge contingent of Congress workers to Lakhimpur but was taken into custody at Saharanpur border on Thursday. He was accompanied with the ministers of Punjab government and Congress MLAs. However, on Friday, he was allowed to go to the trouble-torn district.

    It may be recalled that eight persons including four farmers and Kashyap, were killed during the clashes that took place following a protest by the farmers against the visit of UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday.

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    Meanwhile, as the demand for the arrest of Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra has been growing, the Supreme Court slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for its handling of the case and asked them to apprise the top court of an alternative agency that could conduct the probe.

    A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana also asked the UP government to direct its state police chief to ensure that the evidence in the case was not destroyed till the time another agency takes over. 

  • Lakhimpur Kheri violence: UP scribes demand compensation for slain local journalist

    By PTI

    LAKHIMPUR KHERI: A 28-year-old journalist was among the eight people killed in the violence that erupted during a farmers’ protest at Lakhimpur Kheri.

    Local journalists have demanded a compensation of Rs 50 lakh for the family of Raman Kashyap, who worked with a private TV channel.

    They have also demanded a job for his wife and immediate arrest of the accused in the case.

    Kashyap was a resident of Nighasan tehsil of the district.

    Banbirpur, which is the village of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra, falls under this tehsil.

    Kashyap’s family said he is survived by his wife and two children, a son and a daughter.

    Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is under detention in Sitapur, talked to Ram Dukare, the father of the deceased, over a local Congress leader’s phone.

    AICC member Satish Aneja and a few other Congressmen visited the scribe’s home and connected Ram Dulare with Priyanka Gandhi over his mobile phone.

    Aneja said she expressed grief over Kashyap’s death and promised all help to the family.

    The Congress general secretary has been under detention at a PAC battalion campus in Sitapur since the early hours of Monday when she was heading to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet the families of farmers who died in Sunday’s violence.

    The local journalists had held a dharna in Nighasan on Monday over Kashyap’s death in which his father was also present.

    Ram Dulare said that his son was covering the farmers’ protest on Sunday when he was hit by a vehicle and got grievously injured.

    The journalist could not be traced for a while after the incident and was admitted to the district hospital late on Sunday night.

    He succumbed to his injuries on Monday and his body was identified by his father later.

    Four farmers died after allegedly being knocked down by vehicles driven by BJP workers travelling to welcome Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

    Four others, including Kashyap, were also killed in the clashes.

    Two were BJP workers, Shyam Sundar and Shubham Mishra (27), and one was the Union minister’s driver Hariom Mishra (35).

    All three hailed from Lakhimpur Kheri district.

    The government had announced of a compensation of Rs 45 lakh each to the families of the farmers at the venue of the agriculturists’ agitation in the presence of farmer leader Rakesh Tikait.