Hyderabad: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will embark on a two-day visit to Telangana from Thursday. The visit will also include a 15-km-long 'padayatra' in Adilabad district. "Rahul's visit is to highlight the plight of farmers in the country in general and state in particular," said TPCC working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka. He will stay in Nrimal town on Thursday night, he said.

Rahul's visit is seen as a morale boost for the party cadre as this would be his maiden visit to the state after the state bifurcation on June 2, 2014. Despite aggressive campaign and claiming credit for separate statehood of Telangana, the Congress lost elections in the state last year.

The Gandhi scion would arrive at the international airport here at 4 pm on Thursday and briefly interact with student leaders of Osmania University, who have been agitating on employment issues. Rahul would then proceed to Nirmal by road and may stop at a few points en route. Next day he will proceed on 'padayatra' from Vadiyala village at 7am, the TPCC leader said.

"He will meet the families of farmers who have allegedly committed suicide due to agrarian distress in Telangana and console them," he added. Rahul will also address farmers at Koratikal village at around 4pm and return to Hyderabad after the event and would leave for Delhi by 8pm, Mallu said.

Prior to his Telangana visit, Rahul had aggressively raised farmers' issues in Parliament and also reached out to farmers in Punjab and Maharashtra. Telangana Opposition parties alleged that hundreds of farmers had committed suicide due to agrarian crisis since the TRS government came to power last year.