Lakhimpur Kheri: Why Congress is offended with Rakesh Tikait

On Sunday, a rampaging mob of ‘protesting farmers’ attacked BJP leaders and staff, ensuing within the loss of life of 8 folks. The mob was so irate that they even lynched one automobile driver to loss of life and one other BJP employee whose video went viral. In the video, Shyam Sunder, a BJP employee was seen pleading for his life. The ‘farmers’ have been forcing him to admit {that a} BJP Minister had despatched him to homicide farmers however he refused to say so. The total factor was captured on digicam. Later he was discovered brutally murdered.
While politicians fomented bother additional, Rakesh Tikait, who was giving provocative statements attempting to foment bother, was abruptly seen with the Uttar Pradesh Police in a press convention the place the police have been asserting Rs 45 lac compensation for these killed within the violence, together with the ‘farmers’ and the BJP leaders lynched by these farmers. During the press convention, the police had additionally mentioned that peace shall be maintained and the culprits delivered to guide.
While Lakhimpur Kheri may have burnt with ‘farmers’ happening a rampage and BJP indulging in retaliatory violence, UP police introduced that it had made certain that politicians couldn’t enter the world to create extra bother. With that, the scenario was introduced beneath management with Rakesh Tikait sitting via the press convention with the police.
Politicians and Congress-friendly media weren’t pleased with the press convention. An indication of that unease with Rakesh Tikait being current on the press convention got here with Vinod Kapri’s tweet. Vinod Kapri had earlier peddled faux information, attempting to insinuate that it was Ashish Mishra, son of a BJP chief, who was driving the automobile that had ‘run over’ the farmers.
किसान नेता राकेश टिकैत को इस नरसंहार की भयावहता के बारे में ज़रूर बताया गया होगा , इसके बावजूद हत्यारों की गिरफ़्तारी से पहले ही किसान नेताओं ने 24 घंटे में समझौता क्यों और कैसे कर लिया ? ये सवाल टिकैत से पूछा जाना चाहिए। pic.twitter.com/k7g52kt9cH— Vinod Kapri (@vinodkapri) October 4, 2021
Vinod Kapri mentioned that Rakesh Tikait must be questioned as to how he “reached a compromise” after the “massacre” even earlier than the “killers” had been referred to as.
Kapri shouldn’t be the one one that now doesn’t belief Rakesh Tikait. According to sources, a number of leaders from the Congress and likewise Khalistani parts are sad with Rakesh Tikait and are shedding religion in him to maintain the fireplace burning and the violence brewing forward of the UP elections.
A supply within the Congress occasion, who first refused to speak to OpIndia saying we’re ‘anti-Congress however then spoke to us on the situation of anonymity mentioned, “We have to ask why Priyanka Gandhi and others like Akhilesh Yadav were arrested while Rakesh Tikait was sitting with the UP police and doing a press conference”. “This was a massacre and Rakesh Tikait sold the interest of the farmers by sitting with the police in Uttar Pradesh. Has Rakesh Tikait become a BJP leader now?”, requested the Congress chief.
Another SP employee mentioned, “We work on the ground with the UP elections coming up. These leaders come from outside and join hands with BJP the first chance they get. Our leaders need to be careful of such snakes”.
Several sympathisers and Congress-leaning propagandists noticed Priyanka Gandhi’s detention in Lakhimpur Kheri as yet one more start line of her political rebirth and the revival of the Congress occasion in UP politics similar to Indira Gandhi had resurrected a moribund Congress occasion after her go to to Belchi in Bihar 1977.
Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, whose predilection for the Congress occasion is usually obvious and unmistakable, posted a tweet questioning if Priyanka Gandhi’s go to to Lakhimpur Kheri is her “Belchi moment”. Several observers and media personalities wished to color this as Priyanka’s Belchi second, giving her the political momentum that she wanted.
Even Khalistani terrorist from Sikh For Justice Gurpatwant Singh Pannu launched a video calling for extra violence.
This is NOT a #FarmersProtest, it’s a global conspiracy by #KhalistanMovement terrorists to divide our nation. The ignorant Indians protesting on the streets are merely getting used as cannon fodder. Wake up, folks!! pic.twitter.com/msEKs5nSxl— Priti Gandhi – प्रीति गांधी (@MrsGandhi) October 4, 2021
It is obvious that Khalistani, Congress, SP and opposition pleasant at the moment are shedding religion in Rakesh Tikait to maintain the violence going and at the moment are attempting to resort to different measures – like Congress pleasant journalists like Vinod Kapri peddling faux information about BJP leaders ‘murdering’ farmers to foment extra violence.
The Lakhimpur Kheri violence that claimed that lives of 8 displayed the deep connivance between ‘farmer leaders’, politicians like Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and so forth. While the reality was that the automobile was being attacked by the ‘farmers’ and misplaced management, operating over 4 farmers, the narrative that went out on this planet was extraordinarily totally different, because of vested pursuits like opposition politicians and a pliant media. The media and these politicians insisted that the BJP chief’s automobile had intentionally run over the farmers and that the lynching of the BJP leaders after that was a direct results of the ‘brutality’ by the chief within the automobile.
The fact emerged solely later when a brand new video confirmed how the automobile misplaced steadiness and had ended up operating over farmers, following which, ‘farmers’ lynched BJP staff.
Lakhimpur Kheri – Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s Belchi second: What it means when it comes from Congress-friendly parts
It was 1977, the general public discontent towards Indira Gandhi was on its peak, because of the simmering anger among the many folks over her misbegotten plan of imposing the Emergency within the nation and curbing particular person rights. When about 14 Dalits have been massacred in Bihar’s city of Belchi, Gandhi sensed it as a political alternative to placate the resentful sentiments folks harboured towards her.
She instantly rushed to Belchi together with a cavalcade of 35 automobiles, rode an elephant and managed to draw standard grandstanding regardless of a latest election defeat and had the locals applaud her because the saviour of the oppressed class. The end result was evident within the subsequent elections when Indira regained energy handsomely.
Indira, whose political profession was about to hit the all-time low, discovered the ladder made of those 14 Dalit lives and made a robust comeback. The Belchi go to was hailed by the media because the watershed second that tipped the chances in favour of Indira Gandhi. Hailed and hyped by a pliant media and ecosystem, Belchi helped Indira and the Congress occasion to stay related within the nationwide politics, and it even laid the inspiration for her coming again to energy in 1980. 
About 4 and a half many years later, the Congress occasion is once more on the crossroads, with its recognition and acceptance at its nadir. The latest Punjab fiasco has additionally eroded no matter little belief folks had within the management acumen of the present era of Gandhi leaders. 
As questions are raised over Gandhis’ declare on Congress management, the partisan media journalists and sycophant members of the Congress occasion are desperately hopeful that Priyanka Gandhi’s go to to Lakhimpur Kheri would garner the identical quantity of sympathy and help as grandmother’s go to to Belchi did and as soon as once more reverse the downward spiral of the Congress occasion.
It is pertinent to notice that even the Congress chief mentioned that Lakhimpur Kheri was meant to be Priyanka Gandhi’s Belchi second and with Rakesh Tikait dampening the narrative, the belief issue within the “farmer leader” appears to be dwindling.