Bhiwani/Karnal: In a bid to revitalise the rural support base of the Congress, party president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday reached out to farmers hit by crop loss due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm in Haryana, and appealed to the state government to give the farmers "right and timely compensation".

"I appeal to the government to give right and timely compensation to these farmers. That is what the government's responsibility is," Gandhi said during her visit to a village in Bhiwani district of Haryana on Saturday.