Run Over By Car Of BJP MP During Protest In Haryana, Allege Farmers, 1 Injured.
Days earlier, eight people were killed in UPs Lakhimpur Kheri, where a convoy of cars including one owned by Union Minister Ajay Mishra rammed into a group of farmers.
Farmers in Haryana have said that one person was injured after a car that they say belongs to BJP MP Nayab Saini collided with a group of people protesting against the centers’ agricultural laws.
The injured farmer has been admitted to a government hospital in Naraingarh, near Ambala, where the incident took place. The protesters want a police report against the owner of the vehicle.
Nayab Saini, the Kurukshetra MP and other party leaders, including the state Mining Minister, Mool Chand Sharma, attended an event held at Saini Bhawan in Naraingarh.
When the event concluded and the car convoy left the area, one of the vehicles allegedly struck a farmer. A large group had gathered on the outskirts of Saini Bhawan to protest the visit of the BJP leaders.
This comes four days after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in Uttar Pradeshs Lakhimpur Kheri after a convoy of cars, which included one owned by Union Minister Ajay Mishra and allegedly driven by his son Ashish, rammed into a group of farmers holding a peaceful protest.
A video of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident surfaced online yesterday, a clearer and longer version of the clip that circulated earlier this week, and showed an SUV that appears to deliberately ram a group of farmers walking peacefully with their backs to the vehicle.
The video, which News Agencies has not been able to independently verify, appears to contradict the Mishra’s claims that their vehicle, a Mahindra Thar, was attacked by farmers.
Ashish Mishra, whom the farmers allege was behind the wheel of one of the vehicles, has been charged with murder and negligence in an FIR filed by the police.
However, the authorities have not yet arrested or questioned him.
Ajay Mishra, his father, is the Minister of the Interior in the Narendra Modi government, and oversees law and order and police affairs in the country. Mishra, who has resisted calls to resign, met yesterday with his boss, Home Minister Amit Shah, after which government sources also said he would not resign.
Both Ajay Mishra and Ashish Mishra have denied any involvement with the farmers’ deaths.
Yesterday, the Additional Director General of UP Polices, Prashant Kumar, told News Agencies that “no one will be saved … The technical evidence is permanent. It cannot be influenced.”
On Tuesday, another senior law enforcement official told News Agencies that the delay was due to the force being “busy.” Earlier today, the Supreme Court demanded to know what steps the UP government had taken to arrest the defendants, including Ashish Mishra, in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
The court also asked the state government to present a situation report by tomorrow, specifying the measures taken and the details of the eight people who died.
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