Bathinda (Punjab): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi met the family of a farmer who committed suicide due to debt, and later offered prayers at the Takht Damdama Sahib in Punjab's Bathinda district on Friday.

Rahul, accompanied by Punjab Congress chief Pratap Singh Bajwa and former chief minister Amarinder Singh, visited the family of farmer Jagdev Singh, who had killed himself recently unable to face the burden of debt and crop failure.