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Sep 15 2009, Keyur

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday left Ludhiana as he had come by train, joining top leaders of the party enforcing austerity measures amid a drought.

Gandhi boarded the Swarn Shatabdi Express train for Delhi in an air-conditioned.

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