Samyukta Kisan Morcha writes letter to President Kovind over Lakhimpur Kheri incident

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Oct 04 2021 12:26 PM
P C Thomas

New Delhi: Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Monday wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding the removal of Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni from the Union Council of Ministers and constitute a Special Investigation Team under the supervision of the Supreme Court in the brutal killing of farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri.

Vide letter to Kovind, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of several farmer unions, also said that the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who is "inciting violence while holding a constitutional post, should be sacked from his post". Union Home Minister Ajay Mishra Teni should be right away dismissed from his post and a case should be filed against him for inciting violence and spreading communal hatred and the Union Minister's son Ashish Mishra "Monu" and his fellow goons should be immediately booked for 302 (murder) and arrested immediately, the letter points added.

The farmers union further said that the whole country is outraged by the incident of the alleged brutal killing of farmers in broad daylight by mowing them down with vehicles in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday.