New Delhi:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reiterated his attack on junior home minister Ajay Mishra over his son Ashish Mishra being an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri farmer murder case, calling him a “criminal” and demanding that he be either sacked or sacked. be resigned.
“The minister should resign. He is a criminal,” Mr. Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha amid uproar and chaos amid protests by opposition parties, many of whom have given adjournment notices in both houses and the investigation into the police team’s debate. is invoked. Planned conspiracy” comment.
The protests, which included placards demanding “justice for the Lakhimpur victims” and calling on the government to “dismiss the Home MoS”, led to adjournment of both the houses till 2 pm.
Speaking to NDTV after the protest, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi slammed the opposition for deliberately stalling legislative work. He said the government was not ready to discuss the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and the remarks of the SIT as the matter was sub-judice.
“The investigation is going on under the supervision of the Supreme Court… the matter is under consideration. But there are other things to talk about. I am appealing to the opposition to discuss it. If we have made mistakes, give us constructive suggestions. For example we are ready to talk about covid…”
Mr Joshi told NDTV that it was wrong to deliberately obstruct the functioning of Parliament by the opposition.
In the escalating (and ever more hostile) standoff between the government and the opposition over the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday led the opposition charge when he hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of shielding the minister. .
“It has been said that this (Lakhimpur Kheri incident) is a conspiracy. It clearly is. Everyone knows whose son is involved. We want the minister to resign. We want discussion in Parliament. But the PM refuses.” They are making excuses,” he told reporters inside Parliament.
Ajay Mishra, a junior minister in PM Modi’s government, is facing fresh demands for his resignation after a convoy of cars crushed farmers in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3.
Mr. Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is an accused; He was reportedly at the wheel of a vehicle in the convoy. Police have said that the farmers’ deaths were part of a “planned conspiracy”.
Police probing the incident have leveled fresh charges of “intent to murder” instead of “death by negligence” against Ashish Mishra, who has been in jail since October.
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