{"id":334041,"date":"2021-10-06T01:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=334041"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:04:22","slug":"dictatorship-in-india-on-lakhimpur-kheri-violence-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dictatorship-in-india-on-lakhimpur-kheri-violence-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDictatorship in India\u201d on Lakhimpur Kheri violence: \u00a0Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-334043\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that there is a\u00a0dictatorship&#8221; in India now with politicians not being allowed to visit Uttar Pradesh to meet victim\u2019s families in Lakhimpur Kheri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">He strongly condemned Lakhimpur Kheri, an incident where 8 farmers were brutally thrashed by the son of\u00a0Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">According to Rahul Gandhi-\u201cThere is dictatorship in the country today.\u00a0Politicians are not allowed to visit the state; we have been told since yesterday that we can\u2019t go,\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Rahul Gandhi has announced that he is going to Lakhimpur today along with Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Yesterday, the Prime Minister visited Lucknow but he didn&#8217;t visit\u00a0Lakhimpur Kheri.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a systematic attack on farmers,&#8221; said Rahul Gandhi fronting a press conference ahead of his visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">An SUV, allegedly driven by a Union Minister&#8217;s son, ran over protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that there is a\u00a0dictatorship&#8221; in India now with politicians not being allowed to visit Uttar Pradesh to meet victim\u2019s families in Lakhimpur Kheri. He strongly condemned Lakhimpur Kheri, an incident where 8 farmers were brutally thrashed by the son of\u00a0Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":334043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,2014,2015],"tags":[14616,579,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334045,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334041\/revisions\/334045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/334043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}