Within minutes of Mr. Rahul leaving the venue, onlookers swooped in and made away with the charpoys. The narrow alleys around the ‘Dudhnath Baba Mandir Maidan’ got swamped with villagers carrying the ‘khats’ on their shoulders. The Congress party has specially got around 2000 of these colourful ‘khats’ made in Bihar and other states for Tuesday’s event. Earlier, Mr. Rahul reached Rudrapur via chopper and launched the party’s door-to-door campaign to collect ‘Kisan Mangpatras’ (charter of farmers’ demands). Mr. Kishor was also credited with conceptualising Narendra Modi’s hugely popular ‘chai pe charcha’ events during the latter’s successful prime ministerial campaign.

Source: The Hindu September 06, 2016 14:26 UTC