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Punjab is acceptable to witnesser a governmental face-off this week arsenic the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress cogwheel up for competing successful State-wide campaigns implicit the Centre’s determination to regenerate the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025
The BJP volition statesman its consciousness run launching connected January 7, 2026, portion the Congress has announced a State-wide protestation question — ‘Save MGNREGA’, kicking disconnected from Gurdaspur connected January 8, 2026.
The BJP, according to its State president Sunil Jakhar, intends to “expose the misleading propaganda being dispersed by the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress against this payment strategy for the poor”. “During the campaign, which volition commencement from Fazilka, the radical would beryllium made alert astir the benefits of VB-G RAM G. The enactment enactment and workers volition screen each the Assembly constituencies successful the coming days and volition interruption this web of misinformation done an extended nationalist consciousness programme,” Mr. Jakhar said connected Tuesday.
“In the past, nary 1 was held accountable for failing to supply 100 days of employment to labourers, but nether the caller law, accountability volition beryllium fixed, and the rights of the mediocre tin nary longer beryllium denied. With the implementation of this scheme, corruption volition beryllium curbed, and the full wage magnitude volition straight scope the labourers’ slope accounts. This is precisely the crushed wherefore the AAP authorities and the Congress are opposing this caller pro-poor strategy and spreading falsehoods astir it successful society,” added Mr. Jakhar.
The Congress, connected the different hand, has termed the BJP’s run last-minute ‘fire fighting’ measurement against the Congress’s nation-wide campaign, ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’.
Congress State portion president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said, “The BJP was trying to support the indefensible arsenic it was disquieted astir the party’s nation-wide campaign.”
