New Delhi: Following the revelation of the SIT reports on the Lakhimpur Kheri farm killings, BJP has been siding with its minister Ajay Mishra after his son was charged for murder.
The party’s senior leadership has squashed any steps from their party to sack their minister, speaking to a national daily that, “a father cannot be punished for the actions of his son”.
Opposition has been raising slogans against the government as well as demanding the minister’s resignation after his son was charged for murder in the Lakhimpur Kheri farm killings.
Sources pointed out, as union ministers and senior BJP leaders have said, that the Lakhimpur Kheri case is sub judice (being heard in court) and that the SIT had yet to file its final report.
Party sources have however admitted that Mr Mishra’s shocking outbust at journalists on being questioned about his son being charged for murder in Lakhimpur Kheri farm killings, was ‘wrong’. The minister had been cautioned, the sources said.
Yesterday, while inaugurating an oxygen plant in Lakhimpur, Mr Mishra was filmed lunging at a reporter who asked him about the charges against his son. He was also filmed throwing abuses at the media.
Mr Mishra has been under pressure since his son, Ashish Mishra, was accused and arrested for the death of four farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri in October.
The minister - who has refused to submit to that pressure - clocked into his office in Delhi's North Block this morning, even as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi branded him a "criminal" and demanded he quit.
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