Despite am encouraging turnout at the first ‘Khat Sabha’ (charpoy meeting), Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi seemed unhappy after finding the ‘farmers’ missing from the meeting.
“Where are the farmers in the meeting,” AICC general secretary Gulam Nabi Azad sought to know from local MlA Akhilesh Pratap Singh soon after Rahul expressed his displeasure onthe issue.
Sources confirmed that Rahul was visibly upset after finding that the crowd had more party workers and leaders and less locas and farmers with whom he wanted to interact on severalissues.
Interestingly, Congress legislator Akhilesh Pratap Singh took several names claiming that they had arrived to discuss their problems with Rahul Gandhi and blamed the administration for not allowing them to enter the venue.