Curated spectacles of piety will not change ‘fact you are protecting criminal’: Priyanka attacks PM

🔴 The SIT had arrested 13 people including Ashish Mishra in the first FIR in connection with the death of the four farmers and the journalist.

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"The government's refusal to sack Ajay Mishra Teni is the starkest indication of its moral bankruptcy," Priyanka Gandhi said on Twitter.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not sacking Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, whose son is among the accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, and said carefully curated spectacles of piety and wearing religious attire will not change the “fact that you are protecting a criminal”.

The opposition has renewed its demand for the minister’s dismissal after a special investigation team (SIT) told a local court that the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed was a “pre-planned conspiracy”.

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“The government’s refusal to sack Ajay Mishra Teni is the starkest indication of its moral bankruptcy,” Priyanka Gandhi said on Twitter.

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“@narendramodi ji, carefully curated spectacles of piety and wearing religious attire will not change the fact that you are protecting a criminal Ajay Mishra Teni should be sacked and charged in accordance with the law,” the Congress general secretary said.

Two separate FIRs were filed in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. The SIT had arrested 13 people including Ashish Mishra in the first FIR in connection with the death of the four farmers and the journalist. In the second FIR relating to the death of two BJP workers and a driver during the violence, the SIT had arrested four people.

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