Protests against the visit of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to Lakhimpur Kheri district on Sunday took a forbidding turn with farmers groups alleging that at least four farmers were killed and several injured after they were purposely run over by a car that was part of the convoy of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and BJP MP Ajay Kumar Mishra. Four persons in the Minister’s convoy were killed in violence that followed, Kheri Additional SP Arun Kumar Singh said. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella group representing the protesting farm unions said the one of the victims was shot, and identified the dead as Lovepreet Singh, 20, Nachattar Singh, 60, Daljeet Singh, 35, and Gurwinder Singh, 19. The SKM also alleged that the car was driven by the Union Minister’s son Ashish. Following the incident, angry farmers set on fire and destroyed vehicles of the BJP leader leading to the death of four persons .
