Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Condemns Lakhimpur Kheri Violence, Demands High-Level Inquiry

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NEW DELHI— Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) has expressed grief over the violence that took place on Sunday in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh in which a total of 10 persons including four farmers, lost their lives with several others injured.

In a statement to the media over the reported violence, the Vice President of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Prof Muhammad Salim Engineer said: “It is being said that the violence was not an accident but a deliberate conspiracy. Using this incident as a pretext, the farmers’ agitation is being labeled as illegal and put down using force. The incident has made it plain for the people of Uttar Pradesh and the whole country that their fundamental rights are being crushed using different methods and ploys. We demand a high-level inquiry into the entire episode”.

The JIH Vice President further commented, “The farmers who are agitating peacefully are being oppressed by elements who are aligned with the government. The people of India are observing these developments closely. Such incidents stand condemned in any functioning democracy. We demand that the UP government must allow the law to take its course against all those involved in the killing of the farmers, no matter how well they might be politically connected. The immediate family members of those killed in the violence should be given a compensation of Rs 1 crore each. The government must refrain from deploying illegitimate means for stopping the farmers to exercise their democratic right to protest. Such authoritarian behavior sullies the image of the country and our dream to be an ideal functioning democracy is not realized.”.

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