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BJP plans ‘kisan yatra’ in Maharashtra

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh will go on a two-day “kisan yatra” covering five districts of Maharashtra from where the maximum number of suicide deaths were reported among farmers.

The “yatra” will start on January 10 from Wardha, Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘ashram’, travel through the districts of Akola, Amravati and Washim before ending the next day with a rally in Yavatmal.

Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar will accompany him and several senior party leaders from Maharashtra — Gopinath Munde, Nitin Gadkari, Eknath Khadse and Pandurang Phundkar — will be present at the rally.

Mr. Javadekar told reporters here on Saturday that party workers had collected Rs.75 lakh by contributing their own money towards a party fund for relief and rehabilitation. Mr. Rajnath Singh will distribute Rs.15,000 to each of 500 affected families to pay for children’s education and support of widows.

The “yatra” and rally are expected to focus on the “failed policies” of the UPA government, especially the failure of the Prime Minister’s special package for the farmers of Vidarbha from where a large number of suicides were reported.

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