Amid black flags,Rahul points out rural healthcare woes

By evening,two BJYM activists were taken into preventive custody following their attempt to stage protest outside the Gobind Ballabh Social Science Institute (GBPSSI) at Jhunsi,where Gandhi had gone to attend a seminar on tribal issues.

After the inauguration of the hospital in Newada Samogarh village in Naini,Gandhi said that not getting medical health facilities is one reason why the poor in rural areas continue to remain poor. He told the gathering that the doctors preferred to work in swanky hospitals in big cities and avoid coming to rural areas. On the other hand,the poor could not afford the costly healthcare,which leaves us with a need to develop better healthcare facilities in rural areas,he said.

In his second visit to the institute,accompanied by state Congress president Nirmal Khatri and All-India Congress Committee’s UP in-charge Madhusudhan Mistry,Gandhi talked to intellectuals and tribal leaders of grassroot level on the issue of providing political space to the people from the most marginalised scheduled tribes and ensure their participation in the development process.

On Gandhi’s way back to Bamrauli,two BJYM workers,O P Dwivedi and Pintu Mishra,tried to get close to the cavalcade but were taken into preventive custody,while other BJYM activists clashed with Congress workers.