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Medak farmers meet Sonia Gandhi
A word of thanks: Congress president Sonia Gandhi with farmers who came to express their graditude for the hike in the minimum support price for wheat, in New Delhi on Thursday.
NEW DELHI: The padyatri farmers from Medak district in Andhra Pradesh, whose plight was highlighted in The Hindu on September 28, met United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi here on Thursday and sought her intervention to have their demands met.
They explained to her the distress faced by the farmers of this and other States as witnessed by them during their 1,840 km long padyatra from Medak to New Delhi. The padyatra was undertaken after a fellow sugarcane grower committed suicide in Medak district.
The farmers, led by D. Vasanth Kumar and accompanied by AICC Secretary Sudhakar Reddy, sought higher Statutory Minimum Price for sugarcane and enhanced minimum support price for paddy.
According to the farmers, Ms. Gandhi assured them that she would take up their difficulties and demands with the government.
Earlier, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan met the farmers and discussed their problems.
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