Undertaking a padayatra and interacting with farmers, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi interacted with the farmers not to commit suicide as it was no solution to their problems. On the second day of his tour of Karnataka to comfort the distressed families of farmers who had committed suicide, Rahul started about a seven-km long padayatra from Maidur village in Haveri district of north Karnataka. At the first stop of his padayatra, the Congress MP had interactions with students at Maidur higher primary school..