Rahul Gandhi went to visit the vendors and traders of Azadpur Mandi last Tuesday and shared a video clip of his interaction with them on his social media handles. Gandhi wrote in the caption of the video that 'time will change, India will unite'.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared a video of him visiting the Azadpur Mandi in Delhi where he interacted with some vegetable and fruit vendors and traders. Gandhi hit out at the Centre for the rising inflation in the country without laying an ear to the poor.
On the same day Gandhi got reinstated in Lok Sabha, he shared the video of his visit to the Azadpur Mandi last Tuesday, to draw the attention of the public as well as the ruling government to the ever-rising prices of food items in the market.
Rahul Gandhi asked the question " मंडी में मंदी क्यों?"(Why the slowdown in the market?) as he shared a short clip of his interaction with the vendors of the Azadpur Mandi. He also wrote, "Time will change, India will unite, the tears of the poor will be wiped away."
Further Gandhi wrote the story of one of the vendors he spoke to in the market, it said, "Jata Shankar is a labourer who has not been able to go home, meet his family, for more than a year because of this work. How will he go, if he misses work, money will be deducted and it will become more difficult to survive in this inflation."
Gandhi added, "A shopkeeper also told me that due to the losses, he has to sleep hungry two to three nights in a week. Far from solving the problems of the country's poor, the government is not even listening to them!"
The visit came days after he met some farmers planting paddy in their fields in Haryana's Sonipat district and met some women farm labourers, whom he later invited over to his mother's residence.
Gandhi had shared food with some 30-odd women farmers from Haryana, with his mother Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also joining them.