"Making Excuses": Rahul Gandhi Charges At PM Over UP Farmers' Killing

Lakhimpur Kheri Violence: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said he wants Union Minister Ajay Mishra to resign.

Rahul Gandhi, leading the opposition charge today against Union Minister Ajay Mishra in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of shielding the minister.

"It has been said that it (Lakhimpur Kheri incident) is a conspiracy. It obviously is. Everyone knows whose son is involved. We want the minister to resign. We want a discussion in parliament. But the PM refuses. They are making excuses," the Congress leader told reporters in parliament.

Ajay Mishra, a junior Home Minister in PM Modi's government, is facing renewed demands for his resignation over the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on October 3, in which his son Ashish Mishra is an accused.

A probe team has said farmers were run over at Lakhimpur Kheri, allegedly by an SUV driven by Ashish Mishra, as part of a "planned conspiracy".