Rahul Gandhi to visit Maharashtra on Friday; Congress VP may corner BJP on farmers' woes, demonetisation

Mumbai: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be on a day-long visit to Maharashtra on 8 September, party’s state unit chief Ashok Chavan said on Monday. [caption id=“attachment_3950171” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Rahul Gandhi. Reuters[/caption] “Rahul Gandhi ji will visit Nanded and Parbhani on 8 September. He will address a regional Congress convention at Nanded at 9.30 am. Thereafter, at 1.30 pm in Parbhani, he will address a Sangharsh rally, where he will speak about farmers’ woes and demonetisation,” Chavan told reporters in Mumbai. He added that Gandhi will travel by road from Nanded to Parbhani and may halt at villages in between to interact with farmers. Gandhi’s visit comes in the backdrop of 580 farmers committing suicide between January and August this year, as per information revealed by the Aurangabad divisional commissioner’s office. The state government’s ambitious loan waiver scheme announced earlier this year has also run into controversy, with the Opposition alleging that online submission of applications resulted in scores of farmers facing technical difficulties in the process.