<p>New Delhi: Congress MPs from Kerala along with<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/rahul-gandhi"> Rahul Gandhi</a> staged a protest in Parliament premises on Tuesday over the alleged neglect of MGNREGS workers and demanded an increase in their wages to cope with "rising inflation".</p>.<p>Congress' Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the government's inaction has left millions of families without livelihoods, exacerbating poverty and suffering.</p>.MGNREGS: Empowering through labour.<p>"We demand immediate attention to this crisis and justice for affected workers who are struggling to make ends meet in the absence of wages that are long overdue," she said.</p>.<p>"The government must ensure: Immediate release of pending wages; Increase in wages to cope with rising inflation; Increase in workdays to 150 days," the Congress general secretary said.</p>.<p>Besides Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Shashi Tharoor, among other party MPs from Kerala, participated in the protest.</p>
<p>New Delhi: Congress MPs from Kerala along with<a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/rahul-gandhi"> Rahul Gandhi</a> staged a protest in Parliament premises on Tuesday over the alleged neglect of MGNREGS workers and demanded an increase in their wages to cope with "rising inflation".</p>.<p>Congress' Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the government's inaction has left millions of families without livelihoods, exacerbating poverty and suffering.</p>.MGNREGS: Empowering through labour.<p>"We demand immediate attention to this crisis and justice for affected workers who are struggling to make ends meet in the absence of wages that are long overdue," she said.</p>.<p>"The government must ensure: Immediate release of pending wages; Increase in wages to cope with rising inflation; Increase in workdays to 150 days," the Congress general secretary said.</p>.<p>Besides Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Shashi Tharoor, among other party MPs from Kerala, participated in the protest.</p>