'Incidents' at Lakhimpur: Nobody won after the violence in the tiny hamlet

Nitin Kumar travelled to report on the political dilemma before the state government, which is facing pressure from both farmers and the BJP

Centre must take action, says aggrieved brother of lynched BJP worker

Sham Sunder, Hariom Mishra and Shubham Mishra

Shubham Mishra, 26, was running high fever when he received a call from his close friend, asking him to join a BJP event in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 4. He was initially reluctant to join but was then cajoled by his friends and party workers to accompany them. “He wasn’t well; but he decided to attend the event because Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Union