Lakhimpur Kheri violence 'absolutely condemnable': FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the Lakhimpur Kheri violence is “absolutely condemnable", adding that there are similar issues happening in other parts of India equally which should also be raised.

The Lakhimpur Kheri violence, in which four farmers were killed, is “absolutely condemnable,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said, emphasising that there are issues of such nature happening in other parts of India equally which should be raised "when they happen and not when it suits others" because there is a BJP government in Uttar Pradesh.

Sitharaman, who is on an official visit to the US, was responding to a question during a conversation at Harvard Kennedy School on Tuesday about the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri and the arrest of Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra.