NEW DELHI,12 Jan 2026: The Congress has alleged that the “Yogi-Modi trouble-engine” government in Uttar Pradesh ordered the police to “brutally lathi-charge” National Students’ Union of India (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, Jairam 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,” he alleged.
The NSUI is the student wing of the Congress. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also lashed out at the BJP over the incident.
“The brutal use of force and arrests targeting NSUI students peacefully protesting in Varanasi against the dismantling of MNREGA and the denial of the right to employment to millions of workers is highly condemnable. We strongly condemn this cowardly act,” she said in a post in Hindi on X.
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