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Moving sprightly on foot through
five dusty villages in Amravati district, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi
on Thursday visited nine houses where bread-earners ended their lives, unable
to cope up with severe agrarian crisis. Rahul's padyatra went on for six hours,
even as the area was scorching at 43 degrees Celsius.
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Scores of Congress leaders,
including MPCC president Ashok Chavan and AICC in charge of Maharashtra Mohan
Prakash, who accompanied him on the padyatra, were huffing and puffing trying
to keep pace with Rahul.
In This Pic : Rahul Gandhi
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People in large numbers gathered
on both sides of the road as Rahul travelled some 145km from Nagpur to reach
the first village on his itinerary, Gunji, at 8.12 am. He made several
unplanned stops and greeted people. He emphasized that in days to come, he
would take up the demand for total loan waiver for farmers and higher prices
for crops.
In This Pic : Rahul Gandhi
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Rahul
made a point to visit a Buddhist monastery at Shahpur village and the Gajanan
Maharaj temple at Dhamangaon. He then went on to visit Rajna and Tonglabad in
Chandur Rly taluka. Around 2.30pm, Rahul took a break when he dropped in at MLA
Virendra Jagtap's sprawling bungalow in Chandur Rly for refreshments and rest.
In This Pic : Rahul Gandhi
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Towards the end of his itinerary,
Rahul addressed the press for about three and half minutes. "I have come
to Vidarbha earlier, too. But I have never seen a situation like this. The
farmers feel that they have been abandoned. They want total waiver of crop
loans, higher MSP (minimum support price) for crops," he said and accused
the state government and the Narendra Modi government at Centre of ignoring
farmers and the working class.
In This Pic : Rahul Gandhi
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