Sack Ajay Mishra, ensure judicial probe into Lakhimpur Kheri killings: Congress to President

A delegation of Congress leaders on Wednesday met the President and sought a fee of judicial inquiry by two sitting judges of the Supreme Courtroom or the Excessive Courtroom into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident through which 4 farmers have been killed. The delegation additionally urged the President to make sure the dismissal of Union minister of state for residence Ajay Mishra, saying his continuation as a minister would compromise the investigation. The delegation additionally accused the Modi authorities of making an attempt to “tire & retire” the agitating farmers somewhat than addressing their issues.

Condemning the Lakhimpur incident and focusing on Mishra, the memorandum submitted to the President by Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, AK Antony, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge said: “This deliberate act of homicide, in broad daylight adopted by the audacious reactions of the state and central governments, has fully eroded folks’s religion in these tasked with bringing these perpetrators to justice… Regardless of this context of criminality and abuse of energy, Ajay Mishra Teni continues in workplace because the Union MoS for residence affairs.”

“Moreover, which police official would dare to pretty examine the son of a Union MoS for residence, with the daddy occupying a place of such excessive affect and who enjoys continued endorsements from each the central and state governments,” it added.