Rahul visits Dalit house,holds chaupal

Unscheduled extension of Rahuls visit to Bundelkhand took the administration as well as Cong leaders by surprise.

The unscheduled extension of Rahul Gandhis visit to Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday took the administration as well as Congress leaders by surprise.

Rahul,who was scheduled to leave for Delhi on Monday evening after attending the Youth Congress training programme,suddenly decided to stay back and extend his tour to other parts of the region as well.

Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain Aditya was also scheduled to leave for Delhi on Monday evening but was asked to stay back after Rahul changed his plans.

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Along with Aditya and Congress candidate from Mauranipur reserved constituency in Jhansi,Bihari Lal Arya,Rahul stayed for the night at Medhki village in Mauranipur.

On Monday evening,Rahul had held a chaupal for about two hours below a peepal tree at a government primary school in Medhki village of Mauranipur block.

He had dinner at the house of a Dalit named Kunjilal Kori and stayed for the night at a junior high school in the same village.

Phool Chand,28-year-old son of Kunjilal told The Indian Express,Rahul first had some bites of roti and later had poori-sabji. He was with us for about one-and-a-half hour.