Rahul’s ‘kisan mahapanchayat’ to be in Aligarh

The meet will highlight the problems of farmers especially that of land acquisition.

After Bhatta Parsaul,Rahul Gandhi will reach out to farmers in Aligarh in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the Congress organising a ‘kisan mahapanchayat’ there on July 9.

The decision to shift the venue of the ‘grand assembly’ of farmers to Aligarh,which has also witnessed agitation over land acquisition issue,was taken after Mayawati Government declined permission to hold the meet at Bhatta Parsaul in Greater Noida,where Rahul had joined the farmers’ stir in May.

The decision was taken after UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi met party general secretary Digvijay Singh and other senior leaders in this regard,Girish Srivastav,the media in-charge of Joshi,said.

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The meet will highlight the problems of farmers especially that of land acquisition.

The Bhatta Parsaul stir had seen Mayawati on the backfoot and Digvijay Singh had recently remarked that the UP Chief Minister was “afraid of Rahul Gandhi”.

Gandhi made a dramatic entry into Bhatta Parsaul during the peak of the farmers’ agitation and his subsequent comments on rape of women and bones in ash heaps found there had raised a strorm leading to a war of words between BSP and Congress.

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