NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to follow ‘raj dharma’ and sack Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra immediately to “help restore the glory of India and its democracy”.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said the country and its democracy have suffered a dent after farmers were allegedly crushed under the SUV belonging to the union minister.
He said it was only after Congress pressure that the government questioned the union minister’s son Ashish Mishra, who is named as an accused in the FIR for allegedly running over his SUV over protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday.
Four farmers reportedly died after the SUV ran over them and four others lost their lives in the violence post the incident.
Khera alleged that the might of the Uttar Pradesh and the central governments is applied only on the poor, the weak and the helpless and not on powerful people and that is the reason why the union minister’s son has not yet been arrested.
He urged Prime Minister Modi to follow ‘raj dharma’, saying as chief minister he had ignored the advice of the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee after the Gujarat riots broke out in 2002.
—PTI

Press Trust of India