<p>Congress on Friday hailed Rahul Gandhi’s Kisan Sandesh Yatra in Adilabad district a grand success, claiming that it rekindled the common man’s faith in the party. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The choice of Adilabad was significant, since it stood second in the number of farmers’ suicide following Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s home district of Medak since the state’s inception in June 2014. <br /><br />Gandhi began the Padayatra from Koratikal village almost an hour and a half delay after his stay at a hotel in Nirmal town. He maintained a brisk pace to complete 15 kilometres of the Yatra in five hours. <br /><br />“He reminds me of his grandmother Indira Gandhi who used to walk brisk,” said senior leader Dr Geetha Reddy. “In spite of a slight fever since Thursday night, Rahul surprised all of us.”<br />Unable to keep pace, former TPCC chief Ponnala Laxmaiah and former MP Madhu Yashi Goud broke into a slight run to stay abreast of Rahul. <br /><br />Thousands of Congress workers waving banners and flags participated in the Padayatra from Koratikal to Vadial where the Yatra culminated into a public rally.<br /><br />The Congress Vice-President made his first stop of the Yatra at the home of Velma Rajsekhar, the farmer who took his life, and consoled the family. He handed the family a cheque for Rs 2 lakh and asked them to use the money for the children’s education. <br /><br />Rahul also visited residents of four other farmers -Laxmaiah and Bondla Lingayya of Laxmanchanda village, Satam Gangadhar of Rachapur and P Laxman of Vadial- handing each of them Rs 2 lakh from the party funds.<br /><br />At Bondla Lingayya’s house, he enquired after the education of his three children. <br />He also met wage earners under the MGNREGA scheme in Potupalli and the family of Sankaraiah of Tirupalli village who died in Dubai. <br /><br />Rahul disappointed party workers at Potupalli near Vadial, who had organised a grand lunch for him and other participants of the Yatra.</p>
<p>Congress on Friday hailed Rahul Gandhi’s Kisan Sandesh Yatra in Adilabad district a grand success, claiming that it rekindled the common man’s faith in the party. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The choice of Adilabad was significant, since it stood second in the number of farmers’ suicide following Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s home district of Medak since the state’s inception in June 2014. <br /><br />Gandhi began the Padayatra from Koratikal village almost an hour and a half delay after his stay at a hotel in Nirmal town. He maintained a brisk pace to complete 15 kilometres of the Yatra in five hours. <br /><br />“He reminds me of his grandmother Indira Gandhi who used to walk brisk,” said senior leader Dr Geetha Reddy. “In spite of a slight fever since Thursday night, Rahul surprised all of us.”<br />Unable to keep pace, former TPCC chief Ponnala Laxmaiah and former MP Madhu Yashi Goud broke into a slight run to stay abreast of Rahul. <br /><br />Thousands of Congress workers waving banners and flags participated in the Padayatra from Koratikal to Vadial where the Yatra culminated into a public rally.<br /><br />The Congress Vice-President made his first stop of the Yatra at the home of Velma Rajsekhar, the farmer who took his life, and consoled the family. He handed the family a cheque for Rs 2 lakh and asked them to use the money for the children’s education. <br /><br />Rahul also visited residents of four other farmers -Laxmaiah and Bondla Lingayya of Laxmanchanda village, Satam Gangadhar of Rachapur and P Laxman of Vadial- handing each of them Rs 2 lakh from the party funds.<br /><br />At Bondla Lingayya’s house, he enquired after the education of his three children. <br />He also met wage earners under the MGNREGA scheme in Potupalli and the family of Sankaraiah of Tirupalli village who died in Dubai. <br /><br />Rahul disappointed party workers at Potupalli near Vadial, who had organised a grand lunch for him and other participants of the Yatra.</p>
