Rahul Gandhi To Visit Families Of Farmers Killed In UP's Lakhimpur Tomorrow
NDTV
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi plans to visit Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday, his party has announced, amid the state governments efforts at blocking all opposition leaders, including his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who have made a beeline for the district where eight people were killed on Sunday in violence.
Ms Gandhi Vadra, a Congress general secretary, on Tuesday alleged that she was being held illegally at a police compound in Sitapur and no notice or FIR has been provided to her even after her 38-hour detention and was not allowed to meet her legal counsel.
In a statement, she said she has not been produced in front of a magistrate or any other judicial officer and neither has she been allowed to meet her legal counsel, who has been standing at the gate of the compound since morning.
"Presently I am not going into the details of the completely illegal physical force used on my colleagues and me at the time of my arrest as this statement serves merely to clarify the continuing illegality of my confinement at the PAC compound in Sitapur, UP," she said.
