Rahul Gandhi address Aligarh Kissan Maha-Panchayat

 Rahul Gandhi reach Aligarh Airport for Kissan Maha-Panchayat  reports DD news  is on his way to Exhibition Ground Aligarh.Congress National General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Aligarh this afternoon to participate in the Kisan Maha Panchayat at Numaish Maidan of the town.
Union Ministers, Sachin Pilot, Salman Khurshid, Jitin Prasad, Congress leaders Parmod Tiwari,Ritu Bahuguna Joshi UPCC,Sriprakash Jaiswal,Parvez Hashmi too made their presence at Maha Panchayat.Rahul Gandhi said with this interaction he has been able to know more about the Kissan community grievances and may not be able to experience the same at stay in New Delhi. Terming his foot march as an unforgettable experience, Rahul Gandhi has said he gained a world of knowledge on land acquisition issues,an unforgotten knowledge in lifetime.Agrarian society from surrounding states are present in this Maha-Panhayat begins today at 11.AM. He is to deliver half an hour lecture after four days of his walks across the villages of UP starting from NOIDA ends at Mathura. Congress National General Secretary Rahul Gandhi’s foot march conclude Saturday at Aligarh, where he is slated to participate in a Kisan Maha Panchayat at the Exhibition Ground.Ritu Bahuguna Joshi President UPCC made inaugural and welcome speech and asked Parmod Tiwari to address the Kissan Maha-Panchayat who compared the Rahul four days UP walk with Gandhi Quit India movement of 1942.
Rahul addressed the rally taking on Mayawati,for next year Assembly elections, Gandhi said Land acquisition  in Uttar Pradesh a farmer comes to know about his land only when the builder comes and tells him that the land belongs to him,further to remarks about his padyatra nautanki.or drama he added  “A politician needs to go to people and talk to them and that is what I believe".Winding up his four-day 'padyatra' in the battle against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today accused her government of acquiring farmers' lands for golf courses,colonies  and racing tracks and beating,firing upon poor farmers as they protest.
“We will try to bring such a law that will benefit the farmer. But only changing the law won’t help because the same law exists in Haryana and UP but Haryana government takes people into confidence and talks to them.
“UP government doesn't talk to the people. When a farmer demands his rights government orders firing on him,” Rahul Gandhi said "Farmers are not against development."
Describing the new land acquisition policy announced by BSP government as misleading the farmers, he said it is not helping the farmers who have already lost their land. He reassured the farmers that proposed Land Acquisition Bill prepared by the centre will be in favour of them. He also alleged that welfare schemes including right to education and Mid-day meal initiated by the centre are not being implemented by state government properly.His foot march flagged off from twin villages Bhatta Parsaul in Gautam Buddha Nagar district on Tuesday. Congress leader visited more than one dozen villages affected with the Yamuna Expressway project in three districts of Aligarh, Mathura and Gautam Buddha Nagar.
BSP spokesman briefed media in Lucknow said, almost 80 per cent of the crowd of mahapanchayat was due to lure of  ticket-seekers and farmers' presence was nearly twenty per cent. BSP spokesman too questioned Gandhi's view of separate land acquisition policy for housing and development added BSP government in the state already enacted a "progressive and farmer-friendly policy covering both these areas and it would have been better had he praised the UP government for it".