: Lakhimpur violence ‘condemnable’ but talk about other similar incidents too, says Nirmala Sitharaman #IndiaNEWS Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that the Lakhimpur violence

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Lakhimpur violence ‘condemnable’ but talk about other similar incidents too, says Nirmala Sitharaman #IndiaNEWS
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that the Lakhimpur violence on October 3 was “absolutely condemnable� but added that there were similar instances happening and she was concerned about them too.“[They should] not just raise it when it suits us because it’s a state where BJP is in power, one of my cabinet colleague’s son is probably in trouble, and also assume that it’s actually them who did it and not anybody else,� Sitharaman claimed at a seminar in Harvard Kennedy School in Massachusetts, United States.Sitharaman asked citizens, including Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, to bring up similar incidents when they happened too. She said this in response to a question about the prime minister’s silence about Lakhimpur Kheri, and the rise in intolerance in India, which Sen had earlier spoken against.Eight people, including four farmers, were killed during a protest against the Centre’s farm laws in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on October 3. Farmer bodies have alleged that a vehicle belonging to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, had run over the protestors.The Uttar Pradesh Police had arrested Ashish Mishra on October 9, a day after the Supreme Court said it was not...Read more

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