Farmers condemn U.P. violence
The Hindu
They blame PM Modi for the incident that claimed eight lives
Farmers in the district staged a demonstration against the incident in Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh and held Prime Minister Narendra Modi accountable for the developments in which eight people including four farmers, were killed on Sunday.
Violence broke out during a farmers’ protest when a convoy of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra ploughed into the farmers’ rally which allegedly left four farmers dead. In the ensuing violence, four other people were also killed. Nationwide protests were held on Monday.
Badgalpura Nagendra of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha said the incident was part of a larger conspiracy to break the farmers’ movement against the farm laws that was going on peacefully for the last 10 months.