UP allows netas into Kheri; Rahul, Priyanka meet farmers’ kin

After two days of being denied entry, political representatives were allowed to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight had died on Sunday in violence during a farmers’ black flag protest against Union MoS for home Ajay Mishra Teni and deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. Priyanka Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda visited the families of farmers who were killed.

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