Officials said the young Indian leader is to shortly visit the development projects of Grameen Bank of Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, whose experiment of poor men's banking earned Bangladesh the repute of being the home of micro-credit, a day after he visited the bits of BRAC, world's leading NGO.

"Dr Yunus is accompanying him as Rahul Gandhi visits our microcredit programmes in (suburban) Singair and Manikganj," Grameen Bank official Lamia Moeshed told PTI.

Rahul evaded a media exposure during his visit to BRAC projects on Saturday in suburban Gazipur but mixed freely with rural people and even walked to a roadside village teashop and asked for a cup of tea, puzzling the security men.

Witnesses said elite-anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Special Security Force (SSF) and Indian security team could not stop him from interacting with common people.

Attired in a short-sleeved shirt, jeans and sneakers, he saw for himself the struggle of a few families to pull themselves out of poverty with BRAC micro-credit in several villages of Gazipur. He also witnessed village organizational meetings of women, primary children's education, mass library and women health care programme and adolescent centre.