TPCC stages silent protest against Lakhimpur Kheri killings
The Hindu
Party leaders demand removal of Ajay Mishra from the Union Ministry
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) organised a ‘mouna deeksha’ (silent protest) here on Monday condemning the killing of farmers by running over them in a car allegedly by BJP leaders at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh during a farmers’ protest on October 3 and demanding removal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra from the Ministry.
President of TPCC and MP A. Revanth Reddy, Congress Legislature Party Leader M. Bhatti Vikramarka, working president M. Mahesh Kumar Goud, political affairs committee convenor Md. Ali Shabbir, chairman of AICC programmes in Telangana A. Maheshwar Reddy, AICC secretary Ch. Vamshichand Reddy, former PCC president Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Mahila Congress president Sunita Rao and others participated in the mouna deeksha staged in response to a call given by the AICC.
Speaking at the end of the nearly two-hour silent protest, Mr. Revanth Reddy and other leaders said the Congress party had taken up the protest condemning allowing a free run to the farmers’ killers. The protest was not the matter of the Congress party but it was the issue belonging to 80 crore farm hands who were engaged in the exercise to feed the 140 crore population.
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