Farmers' protest derails Sonia's dream project

The Sonia Gandhi-led UPA may have promised the moon to the nation's poor with new laws on food security and land acquisition, but Rae Bareli, the Congress president's own parliamentary constituency, could well be on another planet. The Rail Coach Factory, Sonia's dream project in the constituency, is in the news again for the wrong reasons because agitating local farmers are protesting at its main gate for the jobs they were promised when their land was acquired by the state government.

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