Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to Visit Lakhimpur Kheri today

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has left for Lakhimpur Kheri, a party spokesperson said, after the party expressed apprehension that she may have been put under house arrest in Lucknow to prevent her from going there. Earlier, Ms Gandhi was stopped from leaving for Lakhimpur Kheri by the Uttar Pradesh Police. The Congress general secretary will meet the farmers injured in the violence that erupted during a protest over Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya's visit to Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. "How much does BJP hate the farmers of the country? Don't they have a right to live? If they raise their voice, will you shoot them, will you crush them with your car? Enough. This is a country of farmers, not a fiefdom of BJP's brutal ideology. Kisan Satyagraha will be strengthened and the voice of the farmer will be louder," Ms Gandhi Vadra had tweeted earlier in the day.