Ranchi, Jan. 12 -- As a part of nationwide protest against change in rural job guarantee law brought by the Centre, the state unit of Congress party, on Sunday, observed a day-long fast at Bapu Vatika under the leadership of party state president Keshav Mahto Kamlesh.

Several senior leaders of the party including state working president Bandhu Tirkey and former state congress committee president Rajesh Thakur besides marketing board chairman Ravindra Singh, minority commission members Shamsher Alam and Jyoti Singh Matharu, and others were present in the programme.

Raising serious questions about the new law, Mahto said the right to employment would no longer be a right, but depend on the will of the government. He said panchayats would ...