Varanasi: Congress activists on Thursday observed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday as ‘Unemployment Day’, staging a protest over unemployment, inflation, education, fuel prices, floods and civic problems.Party workers gathered at Padmashri Crossing and marched to the statue of B R Ambedkar in Ravindrapuri, raising slogans against the govt.The protest highlighted Varanasi’s sewerage issues and the recent controversy over sacks found in a sewer. Congress workers carried a symbolic sack, garlanded it and questioned how it reached the sewer and why those responsible have not been identified yet.Through its campaign ’25 years of Modi rule—25 questions’, the party raised the issues of demonetisation, GST implementation, Covid lockdown, farm laws, Pegasus, electoral funding, Manipur violence, CAA-NRC, Article 370, media freedom, unemployment, privatisation and institutional autonomy.City Congress president Raghvendra Choubey said people were suffering because of unemployment, rising prices, lack of public services and unresolved civic problems in Kashi.He accused the govt of diverting attention from public concerns and said Congress would continue raising people’s issues. The protest was coordinated by Youth Congress president Chanchal Sharma.
