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Led by former party president Rahul Gandhi, several Congress leaders visited the riot hit areas of North east Delhi to get first hand report of the ground situation.
Two separate party delegations visited different areas in northeast Delhi.
The first delegation, comprising mostly MPs, left in a bus from the Kerala House in New Delhi and included Hibi Eden, Gurjeet Singh Aujla and Abdul Khaleque.
Their first stop was Chand Bagh where they met shopkeepers and asked them about the losses they suffered.
The second delegation included Gandhi, K C Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, K Suresh, Mukul Wasnik, Kumari Selja, Gaurav Gogoi and Randeep Surjewala.
Delhi: Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders leave for violence-affected areas of North East Delhi. #DelhiViolence pic.twitter.com/q2YPcWCD0I
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This delegation visited a private school in the Brijpuri area of northeast Delhi that was vandalised and burnt during the riots.
Arun Modern Public Senior Secondary School, which is over 32 years old, suffered massive damage and the Congress delegation went around the gutted classrooms and surveyed the burnt busses.
Speaking with reporters, Gandhi said, “This (school) is India’s future. Hate and violence has destroyed it. Nobody has benefited from this. Violence and hate are enemies of development.”
“India is being divided, burnt. This will not benefit Bharat Mata,” he said.
