Hyderabad, Aug. 16 -- Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has called for statewide protests on Monday, August 17, alleging that the Congress government in Telangana was plotting to scrap the Kalyana Lakshmi and Shaadi Mubarak schemes.

He claimed that the Congress was deliberately trying to scrap these schemes that supported lakhs of poor families and was using the High Court judgment as a pretext.

He questioned why the government, which pays huge amounts to private lawyers to argue for the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) or corruption cases against ministers, acted negligently in protecting the scheme related to girls' rights.

The Telangana High Court had put a four-week stay on t...