Gandhi will address the 'Kisan Aakrosh Rally' at the Guru Govind Singh College Ground in Banswara, where he is expected to raise the farmers' issues.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot reached Banswara today to oversee the arrangements for the rally. He also met the office-bearers of the party's state unit.
Pilot said there was a lot of enthusiasm as regards the rally not only among the Congress workers, but also the farming community and people of the state.
According to Congress leaders, Rajasthan, with 40 lakh farmers burdened with loans, ranked third in this regard among all the states in the country.
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As per their estimate, around 4.68 crore farmers were burdened with loans across the country, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list, followed by Maharashtra.
They claimed that the total loan burden of the farmers of Rajasthan was estimated to be Rs 20,000 crore, out of around Rs 2.5 lakh crore in the country.
The Congress leaders pointed out that in the last two years, 61 farmers committed suicide in Rajasthan, with six taking the extreme step in the last fortnight.
Pilot accused Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of being "silent" on the issue and not paying any compensation to the farmers.
He also claimed that during the UPA regime, the minimum support price (MSP) for crops was raised squarely, with an 8 to 12 per cent average annual increase, while the NDA had raised it only by one to five per cent annually.