Rahul Gandhi walks into Saharanpur district, meets violence victims at ‘dhaba’

Yamunanagar, May 27 : Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi walked into Saharanpur district from the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border on Saturday afternoon and met some victims of caste violence at a ‘dhaba’ in Shahjahanpur village.He accompanied by AICC general secretary in-charge of UP affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad, UP Congress chief Raj Babbar and other party leaders.
The Congress vice-president walked on foot more than a km and reached a ‘dhaba’ at Shahjahanpur village, where he met some of the victims of the caste violence.After staying about half-an-hour at the ‘dabha’, Rahul returned to Delhi via Yamunanagar.According to information, the Saharanpur district administration had put barricades and deployed policemen in large numbers at the entry point on the border. When the Congress vice-president’s car reached near the barricades, the police didn’t allow the driver to go ahead.In the meantime, Rahul Gandhi got down and walked into the Saharanpur district. Other Congress leaders followed him.