Mumbai : Farmers protested in their parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and sloganeering against Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Farmers in Gauriganj town of Amethi district demanded on Wednesday that either their land should be given to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation or given employment.
One of the protesters, Sanjay Sing told ANI: “We are very upset with Rahul Gandhi. He should go back to Italy. He does not deserve to be here. Rahul has grabbed our land.”
The protest took place near the emperor bicycle factory, which was inaugurated by former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi when he was a Lok Sabha MP from Amethi.
As per media reports, in the 1980s, Jain brothers took 65.57 acres of land in Kausar’s industrial area to run a company, but after its failure, there was a land auction in 2014. Earlier the UP State Industrial Development Corporation has leased 65.57 acres of land to the company in 1986 but when the company was closed down, the Debts Recovery Tribunal got it auctioned in 2014 at Rs. 20.10 crore to recover the loan.
The land purchased in the auction was paid by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. That was done for stamp duty. 1,50,000.
Since then the land is on papers with UPSIDC but is still occupied by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust.
Earlier, Union minister Smriti Irani had also accused Rahul Gandhi of grabbing the land of farmers through the foundation.
(With ANI Inputs)
