An application for police remand of Ashish Mishra was submitted to the judicial magistrate who fixed it for hearing for 11 am on Monday. Ashish Mishra was named in an FIR following allegations that he was in one of the vehicles that mowed down four farmers protesting over UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s visit last Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha on Sunday “warned” the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government that its deadline to sack and arrest Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ends on Monday failing which it will start phase-wise protests against the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. Earlier this week, the SKM had issued an ultimatum, asking the government to act against MoS Home Ajay Mishra by October 11 failing which they would start a phase-wise programme to protest the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

The Congress has sought an audience with President Ram Nath Kovind on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence to present to him a memorandum on the facts of the case. AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal has written to the president seeking his time to meet a party delegation led by Rahul Gandhi. Besides Gandhi and Venugopal, other members of the delegation would be A K Antony, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Adhir Ranjan Choudhury Violence broke out in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri during a farmers’ protest on October 3.

Shops will remain shut across Maharashtra today as the Maha Vikas Aghadi government has called a bandh in solidarity with farmers in UP. The ruling parties- Shiv Sena, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party are supporting the bandh. The state government had announced the bandh at a joint press conference of the three parties.

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