Punjab Chief Minister Meets Amit Shah In Delhi Over UP Violence
NDTV
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has asked the centre to withdraw the laws that have led to protests by farmers since last year.
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his home in Delhi on Tuesday. He had said he was going to visit Mr Shah to discuss the violence in Uttar Pradesh and the farm laws.
"These three farm laws should be repealed at the earliest and incidents like this (Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri) need to be scrapped. I will discuss this issue with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in today's meeting," Mr Channi told reporters in Chandigarh, before leaving for Delhi.
As many as eight people were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident on Sunday, said Uttar Pradesh police. Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of several farmer unions, had alleged four farmers lost their lives in the incident.
Mr Channi's meeting with the Union Home Minister came a day after he was denied permission to visit Lakhimpur Kheri while his deputy Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and some Congress MLAs were "detained" after they were stopped at the Haryana-UP border.
