Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra detained enroute violence hit Lakhimpur in UP
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Uttar Pradesh: A day after farmers rally against controversial farm laws that turned violent claiming several lives on Sunday, AICC general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and several other leaders were detained enroute violence hit Lakhimpur- Kheri district on Monday.
Eight farmers were killed during the farmers rally that took a violent turn when they tried to stop the convoy of Union Minister of State for Home Ajai Mishra and UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya from driving towards Tikonia.
As a moral support to the next of kin of the deceased farmers, Priyanka Gandhi wanted to meet them. But, the police detained Gandhi and others at Sitapur.
Priyanka Gandhi, Deepender Singh Hooda and other Congress leaders were detained in Sitapur at around 5 am.
The Congress leaders had to take alternative routes to reach the bordering Hargaon area in Sitapur as heavy security was deployed on the main roads amid tension in the violence-hit region of Lakhimpur.
Gandhi’s convoy was earlier briefly stopped by Uttar Pradesh Police officials in Lucknow, where the Congress general secretary had arrived on Sunday night, within a few hours of violence being reported during an anti-farm laws protest here.
Demanding a judicial probe into the violence, BSP supremo Mayawati said her party’s national general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra was stopped in Lucknow to prevent him also from reaching Lakhimpur.
Congress and opposition parties have condemned the incident and calling it as undemocratic.
– Team Mysoorunews
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