Rahul Gandhi's Kalawati,poster woman of courage

Nagpur, July 23: Frail-looking Kalawati Bandurkar from Vidharba, who was referred to by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his speech yesterday, is having a tough time as her Jalka village gets electricity for only half a day.Kalawati lives in abject poverty and cannot afford to get power connection in her ... about during the trust motion in Lok Sabha.Though Kalawati's life is an ordeal, it is a saga of daughters and two sons did not give up after her husband Parshuram died in December 2005 in Jalka village of neighbouring Yavatmal district, about 120 km near here.Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has taken up social work after mass suicides by farmers under debt in the Vidarbha region and It extended a helping hand to Kalawati by providing two buffaloes and assistance in educating her children, Samiti President Kishore Tiwari told a news agency on Wednesday.Holding a nine-acre agriculture land, she has done well on conservative farming, and thus set an example by sowing traditional cash crop of cotton and soyabean in the A Marathi daily from Mumbai through its readers had collected some money and a Delhi social worker was regularly sending her financial help to overcome the crisis.After her husband's death, Kalawati not only got her eligible daughters married but is looking after their children When Gandhi decided to visit the Vidarbha region, which witnessed unabated suicides by farmers in the past, a team of officials marked Jalka as one of the villages.Kalawati could not recognise the Congress party's youth icon when his motorcade arrived before her small hutment on a hot and humid morning."Ha Rahul Gandhi aahe, Indira Gandhicha natu" (he is Rahul Gandhi, grandson of Indira Gandhi), someone whispered in her ears prompting her to welcome the young leader with a Gandhi was moved by her plight and thought of hundreds of women like her across the country.thus stressed the need of nuclear energy so that every city and village can have access to round-the-clock electricity.The Congress leader defended the Indo-US nuclear deal which experts say will help India tide over the power shortage, thanks to atomic power generation.But Kalawati had no electricity in her dwelling -- either to watch him on television or know the final outcome of trust motion in Parliament -- since it was a load shedding hour.

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