The Congress is going all out to ensure that party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is identified as a champion of poor farmers in the agitation against the National Democratic Alliance government's land acquisition Bill. After allowing him to take centre stage during a recent rally at the Ramlila Maidan, the party ensured that his 'intervention' speech on the agrarian crisis in the Lok Sabha was glitch-free. So, Gandhi was flanked by a battery of young guns from the party. While Jyotiraditya Scindia sat next to him, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's son Gaurav Gogoi was behind him on his left, and Deepender Hooda sat on the right. The young MPs prompted him at times and even deflected the barbs directed at Gandhi from the Treasury benches.
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