Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Khat Pe Charcha’ in Mirzapur: Locals run away with free cots, again
In Photos: Locals run away with free cots in Rahul Gandhi’s Mirzapur rally
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Just a week ago Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's khat sabha in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh ended with locals fleeing with the free cots, not surprisingly it happened again during his another khat sabha Mirzapur. People are seen running away cots after Gandhi’s ‘Khat Pe Charcha’ programme as part of his Kisan Yatra at Bihasara Village in Mirzapur on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)
The Congress vice-president has embarked on an epic 2500 km-long epic 'Kisan Mahayatra' from Deoria in eastern Uttar Pradesh where he would interact with the locals. (Photo: PTI)
The organisers of his campaign seemed to have learnt little after the Deoria incident. They still kept cots for the farmers, however, anticipating similar khat-loot, announcements of "khaat chodke chale jao (Leave without taking the cots)" were made. (Photo: PTI)
Rahul Gandhi interacting with farmers at ‘Khat Pe Charcha’ programme in Mirzapur on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)
In his response to this earlier fiasco, Rahul Gandhi had said: When a farmer takes a cot, he's called a thief. But when big industrialists like Mallya run away, they are called 'defaulter'. (Photo: PTI)
Congress party supporters gleefully take away Modas (Cane stools) after the Khat pe Charcha programme ended in Mirzapur on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)
Congress leaders, travelling with the party scion, were quick to deflect criticism over the matter, saying attacking the party on the issue would boomerang on the opposition as these khats still hold importance in the countryside. The party has arranged 10,000 khats for the entire campaign. (Photo: PTI)