farmers protest: Kheri Lok Sabha constituency: Known as Teni Maharaj in Kheri, Ajay Mishra has strongman Image

Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ grew to become a minister for the primary time in July, when he was inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Union Council, but it surely took the Lakhimpur incident to show the highlight on the Union Minister of State for Residence.

Referred to as Teni Maharaj, Mishra has been elected from the Kheri Lok Sabha constituency twice. He was a lawyer earlier than he joined politics in 2009. His household, initially from Kanpur, shifted to Lakhimpur within the Nineties. The household owns a rice mill, agricultural land and petrol pumps within the space. Teni is keen on wrestling and has the picture of a strongman in UP’s Terai belt.

He was named in a homicide case in Tikunia Nagar Panchayat in 2003. Throughout one of many hearings, an try was made on his life in court docket, however he survived the bullet wound. He was absolved within the homicide case in 2004 and turned to politics. In 2009, he was elected Zila Panchayat member. In 2012, BJP gave him a ticket for the Nighasan meeting seat. Regardless of an SP wave, Teni received the seat. Reposing religion in him, the celebration gave him a Lok Sabha ticket in 2014. Driving on the Modi wave, he received the Kheri seat by over 100 thousand votes. Teni’s victory margin doubled in 2019, when he defeated SP candidate Purvi Verma by over 225,000 votes.

Within the current Cupboard reshuffle, Teni was the one Brahmin face who was inducted from UP. BJP insiders advised ET that it was the induction of Jitin Prasada, one other Brahmin chief from the area, that helped Teni get a ministerial berth. After Prasada joined the BJP, there was a buzz BJP had ignored Teni and ‘chosen’ one other Brahmin chief. Months after Teni grew to become a central minister, Prasad was inducted within the UP ministry.

In 2017, Teni tried to safe the Nighasan BJP ticket for his youthful son, Ashish Mishra ‘Monu’, however the celebration missed the aspirant. Monu hoped to safe the BJP ticket for subsequent 12 months’s meeting polls, earlier than touchdown in bother within the Lakhimpur case. A video clip of Teni purportedly threatening farmers has been doing the rounds not too long ago and locals mentioned that farmers recurrently protesting in Kheri, an space recognized for paddy cultivation, have been agitated after they noticed it. Teni organises wrestling matches in his Banbirpur village yearly and deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya was to be the chief visitor on the occasion on Sunday. The convoy of automobiles have been on its option to obtain the deputy chief minister, after they ran over farmers.