BJP Leader Seen Leaving SUV Says Farmers Attacked Us, "Lucky To Survive"
NDTV
Sumit Jaiswal, a local BJP leader seen in a video leaving the SUV that allegedly crushed protesting farmers, claimed that the protesters attacked Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's convoy, not the other way round.
A Union Minister's son, accused of running over farmers at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday, has yet to be arrested amid a flurry of videos and contradictory versions of the incident in which eight people were killed.
Sumit Jaiswal, a local BJP leader seen in a video leaving the SUV that allegedly crushed protesting farmers, claimed that the protesters attacked Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's convoy, not the other way round.
He has filed a case alleging that his driver, friend and two BJP workers were beaten to death and that he found out from social media later. In the FIR, filed three days after the incident, he says he was in the SUV with his friend Shubham and driver Hari Om when protesters attacked the car. The driver was injured and attacked with sticks and swords, he claims.
This is the second FIR after a previous case filed by the families of the dead farmers against the Union Minister's son Ashish Mishra, accusing him of running over farmers.
