Chennai: Eight people, including four farmers protesting against the Centre’s contentious farm laws were allegedly run over by two SUVs at the Tikonia-Banbirpur road while they were demonstrating against the visit of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya in the Lakhimpur Kheri district.
In a veiled attack at the ruling party following the death of eight persons including four farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the one who is silent on the incident is already dead.
‘The one who is silent even after seeing this inhuman massacre, he is already dead. But we will not let this sacrifice go in vain – Kisan Satyagraha Zindabad! #FarmersProtest,’ Rahul tweeted.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait also took to the micro-blogging site to give an update regarding the matter.
‘People were attacked using vehicles, and firing was also done on them. As per latest reports that we have, several people have died in the incident,’ he said in a video message on Twitter Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted, ‘How much does BJP hate the farmers of the country? Don’t they have a right to live? If they raise their voice, will you shoot them, will you trample on the car? Enough. This is a country of farmers, not a fiefdom of BJP’s brutal ideology. Kisan Satyagraha will be strengthened and the voice of the farmer will be louder.’