11 years ago
Rahul Gandhi is on a padyatra or trek through villages in Maharashtra's Vidarbha, where a tragically high number of desperate, debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide. The 44-year-old Congress vice-president plans to cover 15 km on foot and is visiting five villages in Amravati to meet farmers whose crop has been destroyed by unseasonal rain. He is also visiting the homes of farmers who have killed themselves.
