Varanasi, Jan. 11 -- Senior Congress leader and MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday condemned the police's brutal lathi charge on NSUI's "Save MGNREGA" protest in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi.

In a post in X, Ramesh criticised the BJP government, calling it "trouble-engine government" rattled by peaceful, democratic protests.

Ramesh wrote, "In Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency of Banaras, students, under the leadership of NSUI's national president and my young colleague Varun Chaudhary, took out a 'Save MGNREGA' campaign march. This was a completely peaceful and democratic demonstration carried out under constitutional rights, but the Yogi-Modi trouble-engine government is so rattled by questions t...