Sonepat: The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) demanded a probe by a Supreme Court (SC) judge into the brutal murder of Lakhbir Singh at the Singhu border on October 15.
This was decided at the general body meeting of the SKM held in the kisan andolan office at Singhu.
The SKM leaders said from the evidences and reports that had emerged so far, it was clear that the incident did not happen just like that and there was a conspiracy to give a bad name to the farmers’ movement. They demanded that Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Kailash Chaudhary, who were documented in pictures to have met the Nihang leader whose group was involved in the murder case, should immediately resign.
The SKM has already clarified that the morcha had nothing to do with the Nihangs involved in this incident. “This is a farmers’ movement and not a religious one,” it added.
Notably, after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, a kisan mahapanchayat was announced in Lucknow on October 26, but has now been postponed to November 22, keeping in mind adverse weather conditions and the harvest season.
Meanwhile, the 32 farmers’ organisations of Punjab met at Singhu. A five-member committee was also formed to submit a fact-finding report of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. The meeting called upon the farmers of Punjab to strengthen the morchas by reaching out in large numbers to thwart the ongoing conspiracies of the government, an SKM leader said.
It was also decided to take out ‘kalash yatras’ in the Majha, Malwa and Doaba regions of Punjab on October 24 to immerse the ashes of the Lakhimpur Kheri victims at Kiratpur Sahib, Goindwal Sahib and Hussainiwala.
Call for nationwide protest on Oct 26
The SKM called for a nationwide protest on October 26 to press for the sacking and arrest of MoS Ajay Mishra Teni in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and to mark the completion of 11 months of agitation at the Delhi
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