UP government calls on Lucknow airport not to allow Deputy Punjab Deputy Sukhjinder Randhawa and Chhattisgarh CM Baghel

UP government calls on Lucknow airport not to allow Deputy Punjab Deputy Sukhjinder Randhawa and Chhattisgarh CM Baghel

UP government calls on Lucknow airport not to allow Deputy Punjab Deputy Sukhjinder Randhawa and Chhattisgarh CM Baghel

Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh government has requested the Lucknow airport authority not to allow the arrival of the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and the Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who announced plans to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, in view of the violence that erupted there.Eight people were killed on Sunday as violence erupted during a farmers' protest, claiming the lives of both farmers and BJP workers ahead of a visit to Lakhimpur by Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

"After the incident in Lakhimpur, the district magistrate has imposed prohibitory orders there to maintain law and order. It is requested that you should not allow Chhattisgarh CM and Punjab deputy CM at the CCS Airport in Lucknow," Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Awanish Kumar Awasthi said in a letter dated October 3 to the Airport Authority of India.

Baghel and Randhawa had announced that they would visit Lakhimpur on Monday.

Meanwhile, Baghel targeted the Uttar Pradesh government, asking if civil rights had been suspended in the state.

"Uttar Pradesh government is issuing 'farmaan (diktat)' to me for not coming to the state. Have civil rights been suspended in UP? If Section 144 is imposed in Lakhimpur, then why is the dictatorial government stopping me from landing in Lucknow?" Baghel asked in a tweet in Hindi. PTI