'Land Acquisition Bill aimed at benefitting industrialists': Rahul Gandhi

Reiterating his opposition to the contentious Land Acquisition Bill, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said it is meant to snatch the land away from farmers to benefit the industrialists.

"I do not know what the government is doing, it is being run by the industrialists and those who make this nation have been ignored. That is why I have come here. The law is being made to snatch the land away from farmers, to benefit the industrialists. The land belongs to farmers and will always be with them," Rahul said after visiting Mandi Gobindgarh in Punjab.

"Farmers of Punjab give their sweat and blood, and food to the nation, and when they need help there is no one to help them. They are not getting the right price, there was hailstorm here and they have not got compensation for that," he added.

Rahul had left for Punjab to meet the farmers by a train from New Delhi earlier in the day.

Accompanied by Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, he met farmers in Mandi Gobindgarh and Khanna towns of Punjab.