Agriculture
Times of India Updates: on Lakhimpur Kheri https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/amp_liveblog/86743981.cms
Purported video of MoS Ajay Kumar Mishra surfaced on social media ahead of Lakhimpur violence
A purported video of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra in which he is heard warning agitating farmers that he would discipline them in "two minutes" appears to have angered farmers even before Sunday's violent clashes in Lakhimpur Kheri. "Face me, it will take just two minutes to discipline you fellows," the two-time BJP MP from Kheri is heard allegedly saying in the video. "I am not only a minister or a MP and MLA...people who know me even before I became a Parliamentarian know that I never run away from taking a challenge. The day I accept the challenge you all have to leave not only Palia (a place) but Lakhimpur itself," he is heard saying in the video. (PTI)
Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Farmer leader says MoS Teni's statement provoked farmers
Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan Convener Sardar VM Singh on Monday said that a statement by Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni five days ago had provoked the farmers to protest against him. (ANI)
Congress demands immediate dismissal of Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra
The Congress party has demanded the immediate dismissal of Union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra and arrest of his son who has been named in FIR by UP Police after the death of nine people, including four farmers, in violent clashes in Lakhimpur Kheri.
मोदी के मंत्री Ajay Mishra की हिस्ट्रीशीट जानकर हैरान रह जाएंगे - Ajit Anjum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDjOvt85OB8
Oct 5, 2021
2/4. Top BJP leaders openly inciting or threatening violence.
A. Manoharlal Khattar, Haryana Chief Minister: <https://t.co/ZArlrRZYyw>.
B. Union MoS, Home - Ajay Mishra Teni:
(I) <https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/uttar-pradesh/others/lakhimpur-mp-ajay-mishra-controversial-statement-behind-violence/videoshow/86728421.cms>.
(ii) <https://youtu.be/BMMGgmamoKU>.
(III) His antecedents: <https://www.aajtak.in/amp/india/uttar-pradesh/video/lakhimpur-kheri-violence-minister-ajay-mishra-history-has-been-tainted-1337527-2021-10-06>.
3/4. The agreement between the farmers agitating over the deliberate mowing down and the state administration explained by one from a farmer's organisation: <https://www.facebook.com/kisanektamorcha/videos/6884549751570980/>.
4. A rap narrates and explains the larger agitation: <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2xKlg1n6w>.
Ajit Anjum on the History sheet of Ajay Kumar Mishra https://youtu.be/kDjOvt85OB8?t=173
Background and Information gathered by Chamkor Singh on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident: https://youtube.com/embed/K0UCKB2hBF0?start=636&end=1391
Lakhimpur | FIR Says Minister's Son Opened Fire | Here's What Eyewitnesses Say | MOJO Investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRs0ObtWB0 Oct 6, 2021 One of eye witnesses shows us the parts of broken recovered gun and tells us that this was the gun that was used by Ashish Mishra. Ajay Mishra has been repeatedly denying that his son Ashish Mishra was not present there at the time when the incident happened. Mojo Story talked to some eyewitnesses, who said that Ashish was present with a gun. He fired bullets when a group of protestors tried to nab him. The FIR now registered against the Minister's son mentions that Ashish Mishra opened fire on protestors and a farmer died due to gunshot injuries.
Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Who According To Yogi's Minister Is "Happy"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVTVU36dsg Oct 6, 2021
Addressing the press, Uttar Pradesh's cabinet minister Sidharth Nath Singh said that a compromise was reached between farmers and the government and that everyone was "happy" with it. Ravish Kumar asks on today's show whether the families of those mowed down one of the vehicles of minister Ajay Mishra's son's convoy are "happy" according to Mr Singh. Junior minister Ajay Mishra today met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah amid opposition calls for his sacking over allegations that his son ran over farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. Top government sources, however, ruled out his resignation. Sources said Mr Mishra had clarified "not once but twice" that neither he nor his son was present at the site of the violence. (Audio in Hindi
Lakhimpur Kheri violence carried out using 'leftist methods' and people were mercilessly beaten to death, something farmers cannot do: BKS. (PTI)
Farmers not involved in Lakhimpur Kheri violence; people from various political parties behind it: RSS-affiliated farmer union BKS. (PTI)
The video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1445076493114114051
https://twitter.com/i/status/1445089328145698817
गाड़ी छोड़कर भागते BJP मंत्री के बेटे का वीडियो लीक, सारा सच सामने आ गया https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gux3c_3G4Lg Oct 5, 2021
Sania Ahmad @SaniaAhmad1111
If Umar Khalid's speech is responsible for Delhi "riots"
How is ML Khattar's speech openly inciting violence not responsible for Lakhimpur?
Why is not seditious?
Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa
It has been more than 24 hours since 8 people died in Lakhimpur violence.
Have you heard from the Prime Minister of India yet ?
What takes for the Prime Minister to speak ? What ?
Facts @BefittingFacts
cropped pic of minister's son go run his propaganda. Driver is wearing full sleeve and minister's son is wearing half sleeve but Kapri cropped the pic.
उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने लखीमपुर खीरी हिंसा में मारे गए चार किसानों के परिवारों को 45-45 लाख रुपये की वित्तीय मदद और परिवार के एक सदस्य को सरकारी नौकरी देने का ऐलान किया.
राज्य सरकार ने इसके साथ ही सोमवार को घोषणा की कि हाईकोर्ट के एक सेवानिवृत्त न्यायाधीश मामले की जांच करेंगे. इसके साथ ही घायल किसानों को दस-दस लाख रुपये की मुआवजा राशि दी जाएगी.
केंद्रीय गृह राज्य मंत्री अजय कुमार मिश्रा का कुछ दिनों पहले किसानों को दी गई चेतावनी का वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो रहा है, जिसमें उन्हें यह कहते सुना जा सकता है कि ‘सामना करो आकर, हम आपको सुधार देंगे, दो मिनट लगेगा केवल.’ इसी के बाद लखीमपुर खीरी ज़िले में बीते तीन अक्टूबर को प्रदर्शन कर रहे किसानों के समूह पर कथित तौर पर केंद्रीय गृह राज्य मंत्री के बेटे द्वारा वाहन चढ़ा देने से चार किसानों समेत आठ लोगों की मौत हुई है
Lakhimpur massacre: Even after two years, families of martyred farmers are suffocating under police guard
https://followupstories.com/politics/two-years-of-lakhimpur-kheri-farmers-killing-and-justice-out-of-sight/ by Imtiaz Ahmed
Google Translate of full article..
Two years is a long time to change a small town; To remember some and to forget some; To acquit some and to punish others. Even in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, after October 3, 2021, everything is not the same as it was that day – when four farmers and a journalist protesting against a Union Minister were brutally crushed to death by a jeep, in which The minister's son was riding. In retaliation, the farmers beat the driver of the vehicle and two political workers to death. There were a total of eight deaths and the paths of dozens of lives were forever changed.
“We have no money, moneylenders are not ready to wait. What should we do? We can’t even afford to take onions to the market. You are just thinking about yourself, Modi saheb. You must provide the guaranteed price for the produce… The finance guys threaten, and the patpedhi (cooperative society) officers abuse. Who should we go for justice?… Today, I am forced to commit suicide because of your inaction.”
Those were the words of Dashrath Lakshman Kedari before he died by suicide last year in Pune district of Maharashtra. His is one among the 1,00,474 suicides in the farming sector in the Narendra Modi years (2014-2022), as per the recently released National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. This amounts to nearly 30 suicides per day in these nine years. And yet we heard BJP MP Nishikant Dubey claiming that no farmer has died under Modi by suicide. “Did the opposition ever have a single discussion about farmers’ suicides in the last eight years?” he asked, “If they didn’t, it means farmers are not dying by suicide.” https://thewire.in/agriculture/average-30-farmer-suicides-per-day-in-modi-govt-years-points-to-a-systemic-apathy
Declining public investments, privatisation of key industries, opening up to external trade, decline in state subsidies and shrinking formal agricultural credit all contributed to the long winter for farmers in India who found it increasingly difficult to compete with the heavily subsidised imports. Add to this the monopolistic practices of agro-business giants like Monsanto, the expensive, out of reach genetically modified seeds, fertilisers and insecticides that raised inputs cost by leaps.
by Anirban Bhattacharya, Pranay Raj and Nancy Pathak
18/12/2023
Maharashtra BJP MP Gopal Shetty compares farmers' suicide to 'fashion trend', sparks row https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/maharashtra-bjp-mp-gopal-shetty-compares-farmers-suicide-to-fashion-trend-sparks-row-309345-2016-02-18
BJP MP Gopal Shetty said "Not all farmers' suicides happen due to unemployment and starvation. A fashion is going on. A trend is on," "If Maharashtra government is giving Rs 5 Lakh rupees as compensation, then some other government in neighbouring state is giving Rs 7 Lakh," he said. "There's a competition in these people in giving money (compensation) to farmers,"