The Congress is trying hard to take Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on board in upcoming assembly elections and the party has asked Haryana leader Deepender Singh Hooda to reach out to RLD leaders and last week Priyanka Gandhi had met the Jat leader at .
Rahul Gandhi refused to leave the Lucknow airport in a dramatic standoff this afternoon with security personnel when he was asked to get into a police car for his visit to Lakhimpur Kheri.
Pushed onto the defensive, the Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday allowed the opposition leaders to visit the violence-torn Lakhimpur Kheri district and meet the families of those killed in Sunday's violence, which claimed the lives of eight people including four farmers and a local scribe. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party general secretary