Headed for Lakhimpur, what about Srinagar?

After the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 3 left eight people, including four farmers, dead last week, politicians from opposition parties of all hues are making a beeline to extend their condolences to the kin of the deceased farmers. In Punjab, the council of ministers observed a two-minute silence on October 4 in homage to farmers who died in the violence. What about the other four victims? Were they not human? I wonder why politicians, who compete with each other to prove they are the real sympathisers of farmers, are not going to Srinagar to console the bereaved families of the five civilians recently killed by terrorists? Is it because there are no elections round the corner in Srinagar?

Dr AK Agarwal

Chandigarh