Rahul Gandhi undertakes padayatra in Telangana, meets farmers
Gandhi also met and interacted with a family of an affected farmer in Adilabad.
Speaking to farmers, Gandhi said: "Whenever there was a Congress party government and we saw that farmers were in distress, we helped them:"
"The Congress government waived farm loans of Rs 70,000 crores."
Attacking the Centre, he said: "Our Govt brought in a new Land Acquisition Bill so that you&your families benefit from the increase in prices of land...We wrote in the law, that if land is acquired, then there should be a social audit to assess the impact on all those affected. When the NDA came to power, they removed all these 3 clauses."
This was the Congress leader's first visit to Telangana after the new state was formed last year.
Rahul had earlier visited the distressed farmers in Punjab and Maharashtra.
According to activists in Telangana, more than 900 farmers have killed themselves in the last 10 months over agricultural loss.
But the Telangana Rashtra Samithi government says the number is less than 100.
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