Rahul Gandhi refused to leave Lucknow Airport this afternoon in a dramatic standoff with security guards when he was asked to get into a police car for his visit to Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people including four farmers arrived on Sunday. were killed. After a brief confrontation, the congress leader was allowed to take his own car.
« Who are you to arrange my transport? I want to leave in my car, » the congress leader told the Uttar Pradesh security people who surrounded him. </ When Rahul Gandhi, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi and Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel stayed at the airport, the police cordoned off the area.
“Let me go! You won’t let me leave the airport. See that – what kind of permit is that? Take a look at the state of the UP government’s ‘permit’. Yeh scene dikhao achhi tarah (show this scene correctly) « , Rahul Gandhi said and turned to the media.
» I’m ready to be here 10 days, 20 days, whatever it takes … » he explained.
The UP government today allowed Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (detained since Monday) and three others to visit Lakhimpur Kheri to meet the families of the farmers who were protesting against the Visiting Union Minister Ajay Mishra were run over.
Congress has demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi dismiss Mr Mishra, whose convoy drove into a crowd of demonstrators and crushed some of them. Farmers claim that the car that the demonstrators run over were driven by the minister’s son, Ashish Mishra.
The UP government and police have so far prevented opposition politicians from traveling to Lakhimpur Kheri.
Rahul Gandhi today condemned a « systematic attack on farmers » and said: « There used to be (now) democracy in India. Politicians cannot go to Uttar Pradesh. We have been told since yesterday that we cannot « go to Uttar Pradesh. »
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