BJP workers attacked with swords, some SP leaders identified: Union Minister Ajay Misra

Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Misra said BJP workers were attacked with stones, sticks and swords in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Misra said BJP workers were attacked with stones, sticks and swords when they went to receive Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya in Lakhimpur Kheri. Ajay Misra also claimed that his son Ashish was not at the site where violence erupted during a farmers' protest.

"BJP workers were attacked & killed with sticks and swords. Videos show some attackers asking our workers to say that I had asked them to mow down farmers. It was a planned attack and it is clear that some anti-social elements mixed with the crowd. Some SP leaders have been identified in photos," ANI quoted Ajay Misra as saying.