Rahul Gandhi met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this evening to highlight the situation of farmers in Greater Noida who claim their land is being illicitly acquired by Mayawati's government in UP. Mr Gandhi was in fact accompanied by some farmers. "They wanted to meet the PM, so I facilitated this," the Congress General Secretary told reporters after the meeting. Mr Gandhi said that women have been raped and that there is a pile of ashes 70 feet high in the villages of Parsaul and Bhatti, which have become the epicentre of the farmers' protests.
