New Delhi : Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Monday took a delegation of farmers from Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida Monday to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over controversial land acquisition and alleged atrocities were committed on the villagers by the Uttar Pradesh government.
'The farmers wanted to meet the prime minister and I facilitated it. People are being killed, women raped, I am quite concerned about the situation and it is still pretty bad,' Gandhi told reporters outside the Prime Minister's Residence at 7 Race Course Road here.
'The issues are more fundamental with regard to these villages. In large number of villages in Uttar Pradesh, all down the Agra highway where state oppression is being used, people are being murdered, women being raped, people have been thrashed and houses destroyed,' he said.
Gandhi also handed over pictures of burnt bodies, ashes with bones and ransacked houses to the prime minister and later to the media.
'What I am concerned about is that how are we treating our own people. Most of the people said that they are more than happy to give land for development. Most poor people wanted development in the country and they are ready to sacrifice. The question is how we treat them - do we treat them fairly or we brutalise the said.
Replying to questions about delay in passage of the Land Acquisition Act, Rahul Gandhi said: 'We are committed to the act and it is a complicate piece of legislation and we are working on it. We are confident that it will be passed in the next session.'
'The farmers wanted to meet the prime minister and I facilitated it. People are being killed, women raped, I am quite concerned about the situation and it is still pretty bad,' Gandhi told reporters outside the Prime Minister's Residence at 7 Race Course Road here.
'The issues are more fundamental with regard to these villages. In large number of villages in Uttar Pradesh, all down the Agra highway where state oppression is being used, people are being murdered, women being raped, people have been thrashed and houses destroyed,' he said. Gandhi also handed over pictures of burnt bodies, ashes with bones and ransacked houses to the prime minister and later to the media.
'What I am concerned about is that how are we treating our own people. Most of the people said that they are more than happy to give land for development. Most poor people wanted development in the country and they are ready to sacrifice. The question is how we treat them - do we treat them fairly or we brutalise the said.
Replying to questions about delay in passage of the Land Acquisition Act, Rahul Gandhi said: 'We are committed to the act and it is a complicate piece of legislation and we are working on it. We are confident that it will be passed in the next session.'
