Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni: Rakesh Tikait is a second rate person

Calling farmer leader Rakesh Tikait a second rate person in his address to his supporters,
Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son is in jail over allegations of running over farmers, projected himself as someone "fighting the world".

"Dogs bark on the side of the road, have nothing to say about them," the minister said during a speechspeech in his constituency Lakhimpur Kheri on Monday.

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Ashish Mishra is accused of running over four farmers and a journalist during a protest against farm laws at Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3. Three more were killed in the violence that erupted after the killings.

"No one in the world will be able to disappoint you. No matter how many Rakesh Tikaits come - I know him very well, 'do kaudi ka aadmi hai', he fought two elections and lost his deposit (lost badly). If such a person protests, I do not respond. If his politics survives because of this, let it. I have never done anything wrong in my life," he said.

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