Uttar Pradesh: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was on her way to Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district to visit the families of the victims of Sunday’s violence, has been arrested in Hargaon on Monday.
“Finally what was expected from the BJP has happened. In the democratic country of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’, the worshipers of ‘Godse’ have arrested our leader @priyankagandhi Ji who fought heavy rains and the police force to meet the ‘Annadata’, from Hargaon. This is just the beginning of the fight!! Kisan Ekta Zindabad,” party’s youth wing national president Srinivas BV’s tweet, roughly translated from Hindi, read.
आखिरकार वही हुआ, जिसकी BJP से उम्मीद थी
'महात्मा गांधी' के लोकतांत्रिक देश में 'गोडसे' के उपासकों ने भारी बारिश और पुलिसबल से संघर्ष करते हुए अन्नदाताओं से मिलने जा रही हमारी नेता @priyankagandhi जी को हरगांव से गिरफ्तार किया..
ये लड़ाई का सिर्फ आरंभ है!! किसान एकता जिंदाबाद pic.twitter.com/vehKIxh87B
— Srinivas BV (@srinivasiyc) October 4, 2021
The farmers, who had assembled to stop the visit of the Union Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, said the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district started after the minster’s car mowed down the protesters. Visuals from the area showed arson and vehicles set on fire.
The Congress tweeted a video saying Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is being taken to Sitapur Police line and urged people to gather there.
“I am not important than the people you have killed. The government you are defending. You give me a legal warrant, a legal basis or else I will not move from here and you won’t touch me,” a visibly agitated Congress leader, surrounded by policemen, is heard saying in a video when her convoy is stopped at Sitapur.
“Warrant nikalo, order nikalo nahi toh main yahan se nahi hil rahi hoon (Produce a warrant or a legal order or else I am not moving out from here) and if you will put me in that car I will charge you with kidnapping. And the charge will not be against the police but you,” She is heard telling the cop.
