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"Rae Bareli and Amethi were the 'karma bhoomi' of Feroze Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. It is also the 'karma bhoomi' of mine and Rahul. Rae Bareli and Amethi are like my home. I want to ask, can anyone prevent me from coming to my home? No one can," she said in a brief interaction with reporters near the railway station in Lalganj, about 20 km away.
She also had barbs at Chief Minister Mayawati saying like the Rail Coach Factory in her constituency for which land allotment has been cancelled by the state government, there were at least eight such schemes on which the clearance has come the Centre but "all the hurdles are here only in Uttar Pradesh".
Asked if she was prepared to go to jail, Gandhi shot back "I am also ready to go to jail".
Unfazed by the administration's apparent attempts to foil her plans for holding a rally today by imposing prohibitory orders, Gandhi flew straight to Fursatganj in a private aircraft skipping Lucknow.
Gandhi, who was cheered by slogan-shouting Congress workers who also garlanded her at some places, said she had planned to come here for the happy occasion of laying of the foundation stone for the Rail Coach Factory.
"You know the matter is now before the court and I will not make any comments," she said when asked about the cancellation of the land allotment by the Mayawati government.
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oF COURSE nO BODY CAN STOP HER FROM VISITNG ANY place . THE WHOLE OF INDIA BELONGS TO THE NEHRU -GANDHI FAMILY. ASK ANY CONGRESSWALL!
Her Karma Bhoomi, was Italy, it is her Karma that she married Rajiv Gandhi, it is her Karma to get involved in India politcs and it is in her Karma that she is entangled with other karmayogi lady Mayawati. It is all Om/Allah/God maya to see these two opinionated cats fight out, at the cost of country progress.