Police action in Lakhimpur reminds of pre-Independence era Britishers, says Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday demanded a probe monitored under a sitting judge into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in which eight people were killed on Sunday.

“The Samajwadi Party demands that a probe should be ordered monitored under a sitting judge,” said Akhilesh Yadav.

The SP leader who was detained for violating prohibitory orders and kept in police custody before he was released later said that what the police did in Lakhimpur was worse than what Britishers did to protestors during their rule pre-independence.

“It was such a shameful act. BJP has tortured farmers more than what even Britishers would have done,” he said.
He also demanded the resignation of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni.

“I request farmers to remove this government. Every video and witness is pointing towards son of the Uttar Pradesh minister… He should resign today…Law should take its course. BJP should send those people to jail, who are culprits. Local people know whose vehicle it was,” he said.

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.