Priyanka targets PM again for not dismissing Teni
LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stepped up her attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not dismissing union minister of state for home Ajay Mishra Teni, within minutes of the latter’s son Ashish Mishra getting bail in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case on Thursday.
Ashish Mishra is accused of killing four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri. A vehicle had mowed down the farmers there on October 3, 2021. “The union minister’s son has been granted bail (by the high court) on Thursday. Tomorrow he can come in between you and may crush anyone,” said Priyanka while addressing a public meeting in Chamraua assembly constituency, about 325 km north-west from here.
Priyanka referred to the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and how she went to meet families of those killed there and said “The PM has not sought his (minister’s) resignation. Everybody praises the Prime Minister. They say he (PM) is good, upholds high moral grounds. What kind of morality is this? He (union minister of state for home) shares dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi like this,” she said while indicating towards those sharing dais with her on Thursday. She went for a doorto-door campaign and addressed public meetings at Rampur,
Bilaspur and Moradabad assembly constituencies going for voting in the second phase.
Referring to the agitation of farmers against the three farm laws that the union government later withdrew, she said, “You must have taken part in the farmers’ agitation. Farmers died there (during the course of agitation). They kept on sitting on Delhi borders. No one met them. Sugarcane dues went up to Rs 14000 crore in India. PM Modi’s two airplanes cost Rs 16000 crore. The PM has visited USA, Russia, Pakistan and goes around the world. But he did not go to meet farmers,” she said.