‘Immediately sack MoS Ajay Kumar Mishra’: Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha on SIT report on Lakhimpur Kheri violence
FirstpostThe Congress leader moved an adjournment notice in the lower house demanding the removal of Minster of State for Home Ajay Misra in light of the SIT report, which called the Lakhimpur Kheri incident a ‘planned conspiracy' Lok Sabha witnessed a stormy Wednesday morning when former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi gave an adjournment notice in the Lok Sabha for discussing the SIT report in a case of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, in which eight people were killed. The Congress leader’s notice submitted to the Lok Sabha secretary general, read: “The UP Police SIT report has highlighted that massacre of farmers at Lakhimpur was a pre-planned conspiracy and not a negligent act. The SIT’s Investigating Officer in the report clearly stated: “The incident was a deliberate act and not of negligence or callousness.” The court later allowed the SIT probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to replace lesser charges in the case like causing death by negligence with attempt to murder. Lok Sabha sees protests Lok Sabha proceedings on Wednesday were disrupted amid vociferous Opposition protests over the findings of the SIT report on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh.