New Delhi, Jan 11: The Congress on Sunday alleged that the “Yogi-Modi trouble-engine” government in Uttar Pradesh ordered the police to “brutally lathi-charge” NSUI protesters taking out a peaceful march in Varanasi as part of the party’s nationwide ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’.
Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, shared a video clip in which police could be seen purportedly pushing and using force against the protesters.
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi, students, led by NSUI national president and my young colleague Varun Chaudhary, held a ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’ march, Ramesh said in a post in Hindi on X.
“It was a completely peaceful and democratic demonstration conducted within the framework of constitutional rights, but the Yogi-Modi ‘trouble-engine’ government was so afraid of being questioned that it ordered the police to brutally lathi-charge the protesters,” Ramesh alleged.
On Saturday, the Congress launched its 45-day nationwide campaign – MGNREGA Bachao Sangram – against the repeal of the UPA-era rural employment law by holding press conferences at every district. The opposition party’s agitation demanding the withdrawal of the VB-G RAM G Act and restoration of MGNREGA as a rights-based law in its original form, the right to work, and the authority of panchayats will continue till February 25. (PTI)
