Rahul's Bundelkhand itinerary: Tour of villages, night stay at Dalit's
house, poori-sabzi for dinner
Express News Service Posted: Oct 12, 2011 at 0306 hrs
Lucknow The unscheduled extension of Rahul Gandhi's visit to
Bundelkhand on Tuesday not only took the administration but also
Congress leaders by surprise.
Rahul Gandhi, who was scheduled to leave for Delhi on Monday evening
after attending the Youth Congress training programme, suddenly
decided to stay back and extend his tour to other parts of the region
as well.
Sources in the party said the decision was taken on Monday evening
after his plane could not take-off from the Jhansi airport due to low
visibility. Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain
Aditya was also scheduled to leave for Delhi on Monday evening but was
asked to stay back after Rahul Gandhi changed his plans.
Along with Aditya and Congress candidate from Mauranipur reserved
constituency in Jhansi, Bihari Lal Arya, Rahul stayed for the night at
Medhki village in Mauranipur.
As information about Rahul's extended tour reached the Uttar Pradesh
Congress Committee, Congress state President Rita Bahuguna Joshi
reached Jhansi around 9:30am to join Rahul and others in his tour.
On the second day of his stay in Bundelkhand, Rahul held chaupals,
inquired about the implementation of welfare schemes and inspected
development works in rural areas.
During his visit, Rahul asked the villagers about benefits of
centrally funded schemes such as MGNREGA, Janani Suraksha Yojana,
Bundelkhand package and pointed out lacunae in their implementation.
Around 10 am on Tuesday, Rahul along with Aditya and Joshi went to the
Agricultural Produce Market in Mauranipur following complaints from
farmers that fertilisers meant for them were being sold in the open
market. Rahul and Aditya interacted with the farmers, who were
standing in queue to get their share of fertilisers.
From Mauranipur, they went to Bhadarwara village, where they found
that wells constructed for water conservation under the Bundelkhand
package had collapsed in just six months. Rahul and his team found
that hardly any woman in the village had got benefits of the Janani
Suraksha Yojna due to lack of awareness about the scheme. Majority of
the women, who had recently delivered a child, informed that they were
not aware about provisions of the scheme. From Jhansi, they went to
Mahoba district, meeting villagers on his way. Later in the day, they
went to Hamirpur district, where Rahul held chaupals at Jakheri and
Dhanauri villages.
He told the villagers that during his visit to the region, he found
that funds given by the Central Government under the Bundelkhand
package and other central government schemes were not being utilised
properly. At each village, he asked villagers about their problems and
whether they were getting benefits of schemes meant for them or not.
On Monday evening, Rahul had held a chaupal for about two hours below
a peepal tree at a Government Primary School in Medhki village of
Mauranipur block. He had dinner at the house of a Dalit named Kunjilal
Kori and stayed for the night at a Junior High school in the same
village. Phool Chand, 28-year-old son of Kunjilal told The Indian
Express, "We had only roti and achar, when Rahul Gandhi reached our
house. He first had some bites of roti and later my bhabhi made
poori-sabzi for him. He was with us for about one-and-a-half hour and
had dinner with my father." Rahul is likely to stay for the night in
Hamirpur and leave for Delhi tomorrow.
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