Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son mowed down farmers during 2020 protest, to contest from Lakhimpur Kheri

PTC News Desk: Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish allegedly mowed down farmers during the 2020-21 Farmers' Protest, has been given a ticket to contest in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Teni will run in the upcoming elections on a BJP ticket from the Lakhimpur Kheri constituency.

The development comes just days after clashes between police and protesting farmers. The key demands of Farmers' Protest 2.0 include justice for the victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, bringing MoS Ajay Mishra at the centre of all of it.

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Lakhimpur Kheri incident

The tragic event happened on October 3, 2021. Four farmers, Nakshatra Singh, Gurvinder Singh, Lavpreet Singh, and Daljeet Singh, were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri when a convoy of three SUVs, one of which belonged to Mishra, hit crowd of people protesting against the Centre's farm laws.

Ashish, Mishra's son, was allegedly driving one of the SUVs.

Allegations of retaliation claimed the lives of a driver and two BJP workers.

A special investigation team of the Uttar Pradesh Police charged Ajay Mishra Teni's son, Ashish Mishra, with murder and criminal conspiracy for allegedly driving the vehicle.

Following the tragic incident, farmers demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi dismiss the Union Minister, claiming that "the PM was protecting the chief conspirator behind the Lakhimpur Kheri incident".

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