Rahul Gandhi Speaks After Padyatra in Telangana: Highlights

Adilabad, Telangana: Rahul Gandhi conducted a 'padyatra' in Telangana where he visited five villages to meet families of farmers who committed suicide in the last year in the state's drought-struck Adilabad district.

He is speaking to the media after his padyatra. Here are the highlights:

• Congress used to help whenever the farmers were in trouble.
• We would increase minimum support price, and every farmer remembers when we waived farm loans worth 70,000 crore rupees.
• We increased agricultural credit by 700 per cent.
• For those farmers whose land is near cities, their land prices will appreciate exponentially.
• We think the benefit of increased land prices should go to the farmers and their children.
• We changed the land acquisition laws, and that benefitted the farmers.
• We said in that law that farmers' land should be acquired with their consent.
• When there is a hail storm or unseasonal rains, Modiji doesn't visit the farmers.
• Here in Telangana, 'mini-Modi' (Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao) doesn't see the farmers' plight.