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C.T. Ravi, BJP MLC, has alleged that Congress leaders are misleading the nationalist by spreading lies astir the replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025.
Speaking to property persons successful Hassan connected January 10, Mr. Ravi said that the Union authorities replaced the enactment and made immoderate changes to realise Mahatma Gandhi’s imagination of Rama Rajya.
The BJP person said the Congress authorities had launched Jawahar Rozgar Yojna successful 1989. However, it had not allocated funds for the scheme. The programme was restructured and strengthened during erstwhile Prime Minister Vajpayee’s tenure. Later, the UPA authorities turned the aforesaid into MGNREGA.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule, the full funds spent for the programme person accrued substantially. In 2013, lone ₹30,000 crore was spent connected the programme. However, the expenditure has present accrued to ₹2.3 lakh crore.
“It is the work of the authorities to reappraisal schemes regularly and marque indispensable changes to plug the loopholes. The contiguous authorities has made immoderate changes to forestall corruption successful the scheme,” helium said.
On the alteration of name, the erstwhile Minister opined that the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction should not beryllium viewed arsenic disrespect to Gandhi. “Gandhi worshipped Rama; however, the radical criticising the changes are questioning the beingness of Rama. Gandhi advocated transparency and honesty, portion Congress leaders are engaged successful corruption. They person nary motivation close to instrumentality the sanction Gandhi,” helium remarked.
Further, helium stated that if Gandhi were alive, helium would person staged satyagraha against the Congress.
District BJP president Siddesh Nagendra and others were contiguous astatine the property conference.
