Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi left for Mandsaur on Thursday where five farmers were killed during the protest. “Gandhi arrived here on a chartered plane and left for Madhya Pradesh by road,” I G Udaipur Anand Srivastava said.
He would enter Neemuch of Madhya Pradesh from Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan. Gandhi is accompanied by PCC Rajasthan chief Sachin Pilot and other party leaders, including Digvijay Singh, Girija Vyas and Kamal Nath.
Raj & MP Govts are doing their best to prevent me from entering MP & meeting the families of the #farmers killed in #Mandsaur
— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) June 8, 2017
Superintendent of Police of Neemuch Manoj Kumar Singh said the Congress leader will not be allowed to enter the violence-hit district where the situation remains tense. If the Congress leader tries to enter the district, he will be detained, the SP said.
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The Congress yesterday termed as “cold-blooded murder” the killing of farmers in police firing and questioned the Prime Minister’s silence over it. The Congress accused the BJP of “acting as a curse of death for Indian farmers”.