LUCKNOW: Founder of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-L), Shivpal Yadav, on Monday managed to dodge the police cordon outside his house to leave for Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died in violence on Sunday.
However, the police swung into action and intercepted him in Jankipuram where he was detained with his supporters. He was brought to the police lines and let off later in the evening.
Talking to media persons, Shivpal described the Lakhimpur Kheri case as "the most saddening and brutal incidents of independent India".
"Farmers are being made to pay with their lives for raising voice against farm laws. It has never happened before in independent India," Shivpal said.
The PSP-L chief demanded that the Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish Mishra allegedly led the convoy of cars that crushed four farmers to death, must resign from his post immediately. "The minister’s son should be arrested and the kin of the deceased be given ex gratia of Rs 1 crore and a government job. A judicial probe by a sitting high court judge should be ordered and stringent action be initiated against people responsible for the farmers’ death," he said.
