The video shows Ajay Mishra using an expletive and calling reporters “chor (thieves)”.
Lucknow: In the Lakhimpur incident, a murder case has been registered against Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Teni’s son Ashish Mishra. The opposition is continuously demanding Teni’s resignation. In a video, the minister is seen slamming and abusing journalists.
Teni, who came under the scanner of allegations, has now come down on indecency. In Lakhimpur Kheri, when Naveen, the correspondent of ABP News, asked the minister a question about the SIT investigation, he got angry, started committing an indecency. Tried to intimidate the reporter of ABP News. Another journalist present there also tried to switch off the mobile.
ABP News questioned him:
1. If the Minister of State for Home commits indecency, then from whom will you expect justice?
2. Why did Minister Teni finally try to shut the reporter’s mouth?
3. Asking questions is the job of the media, so why did the minister get angry?
4. After the murder allegation on the son, when will minister Teni resign?
5. If Teni is a minister, will the case not affect the son?
In the video Minister is seen yelling at the journalist, he said, “Don’t ask these stupid questions. Dimag kharaab hai kya be (Are you mad?)”
#AjayMishraTeni Abuses Journalists Who Asked About Jailed Son…#lakhimpurkheri #AshishTeni pic.twitter.com/AsEmmQocIK
— Sonu Kanojia (@NNsonukanojia) December 15, 2021
Mishra, the Union Minister of State for Home in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, is also seen pouncing on a reporter and snatching his mic. “Mic band karo be (shut the mic),” he says.
The video shows him using an expletive and calling reporters “chor (thieves)”.
The incident took place when the minister was inaugurating an oxygen plant at Lakhimpur Kheri, where he visited his son in jail yesterday.
Opposition is demanding the resignation of the Union Minister of Home State, Ajay Mishra. Opposition demands for
Mishra’s sacking from the Union Cabinet has become louder after a Special Investigation Team report said the killing of farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3 was a “planned conspiracy”. The farmers were crushed, allegedly by an SUV driven by Ashish Mishra, “with intent to commit murder” and it was “not death by negligence”, the report said.
It also recommended that the charges of rash driving against Ashish Mishra and the others be modified and an attempt to murder charge and the charge of voluntarily causing hurt to be added. Ashish Mishra and others are already facing murder and conspiracy charges.
“We want the minister to resign but the PM is not ready. The way the government was forced to take back farm laws, it will be forced to sack the minister,” said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who had given notice for a discussion in parliament on the report.
So far, the BJP has firmly refused to give in to pressure and remove Mr. Mishra, insisting that he cannot be held responsible for anything his son did.
However, with Uttar Pradesh and four other states set to vote early next year, the BJP is finding it increasingly difficult to defend its minister, who is accused of shielding his son.
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