New Delhi, Apr 28 (Agencies) : Rahul GandhiCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took his fight against the NDA government's contentious land acuisition bill to Punjab where he boarded a local train to meet farmers in Ludhiana.

"I am going to see the farmers' condition with my own eyes. I have heard their conditions are dire," the 44-year-old leader dressed in a brown tee and jeans said at the New Delhi railway station as he boarded a train.

"It's a central issue. The lands of people who provide this country with food grains are being snatched away. It is wrong and we will fight it," Rahul said.

The visit to Punjab came at a time when farmers in the state have accused the government of tardy wheat procurement. Recently, Punjab has also witnessed suicides by farmers.

On Monday, Congress leader Amarinder Singh had said that Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal should stage a dharna along with his ministers outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office to seek his attention on the farmers' issue. "If Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not giving time to Badal, he should better stage a dharna instead of loitering around and issuing hollow threats to seek his attention," he said after visiting grain markets of Patiala and Khanna.

Rahul had recently attacked the government, alleging that it was "ignoring" the farming community and favouring the industrialists and rich people. He has also accused the government of giving out contradictory figures about the damages suffered by farmers during the recent unseasonal rains.

Since his return from the 57-day sabbatical earlier this month, the Congress leader has spearheaded his party's resistance to the Centre's plans to amend a 2013 law on land acqusition, which the party alleges is anti-farmer.

Rahul is also set to begin a country-wide padyatra (march) against the land bill by the end of this month from Vidarbha in Maharashtra where hundreds of farmers have committed suicide in the last few months. He is also expected to visit Marathwada and western Maharashtra, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and other parts of the country.