A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised the issue of alleged burning of people in Uttar Pradesh's Bhatta Parasaul, the focal point of farmers stir on land acquisition issue, ashes from a site were on Tuesday lifted and sent to forensic laboratory for examination.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demanded the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh take back the cases filed against agitating farmers of Bhatta Parsaul near Greater Noida a year ago and release those who are still in jail in the case.
"Rahul Gandhi seems to have believed the "loose talk" by certain grieved farmers that they shared with him and his team," says a political editor of a well-known television news channel who had accompanied, Rahul on May 11 when he visited Bhatta Parasual village in Greater Noida where many farmers are agitating against the low price offered for their land by Mayavati government of Uttar Pradesh.
Party sources in the party said the Padyatra could begin either from Vidarbha in Maharasthra or some district including Medak from Telangana -- the two regions which have been in the news for farmer suicides.
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