As the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Saturday said it has found atrocities being committed in Bhatta Pasaul village in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party maintained that the original problem of the farmers was being overlooked in the controversy.

Backing Rahul Gandhi's allegations about police atrocities on Greater Noida villagers, the NCW today recommended a CBI probe 'as soon as possible' into the incidents.

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Strongly backing Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the "brutalities" perpetrated on farmers in Greater Noida villages, saying the state has descended into "anarchy and lawlessness".

The Congress on Wednesday defended party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's claim of 74 mounds of ash containing human remains having been found in Bhatta Parsaul village of Greater Noida and asked the Uttar Pradesh government to order a probe.

With his comments on burnt bodies and rape of women in Greater Noida villages triggering a major controversy, Congress on Wednesday initiated a damage- control exercise saying Rahul Gandhi did not say that 74 persons have been killed there.

Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had complained to him about the atrocities they were subjected to.

Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi today appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had complained to him a

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will inaugurate a two-day convention of UPCC at Nadesar in Varanasi on Wednesday, a party spokesperson said on Tuesday.

A day after Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Uttar Pradesh government had killed people in Greater Noida's Bhatta Parsaul village to quell the farmers' stir, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday demanded that authorities provide an explanation for the "missing" villagers.

Riding high on the wave of farmers' agitation in Uttar Pradesh, Congress is expected to come out with a strategy for the Assembly polls in 2012 to pose a challenge to chief minister Mayawati at a convention in Varanasi beginning on Wednesday.