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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Saturday said that connected the lines of the farmers’ protestation that compelled the Centre to retreat workplace laws, a protestation would beryllium launched with like-minded governmental parties and organisations representing the mediocre to request repeal of the caller Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) and restoration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA).
Addressing a associated property league with Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC main D.K. Shivakumar and different Ministers, helium demanded that the Centre repeal the new instrumentality to warrant the close to enactment for the rural poor, labourers, and women.
Panchayat system
He alleged that the NDA government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had “killed Mahatma Gandhi for the 2nd time” by repealing the occupation strategy named aft Gandhiji. While Mahatma Gandhi advocated Gram Swaraj, the Centre had “destroyed the panchayat system” by curtailing the rights of the agrarian section bodies to place and allot enactment nether the scheme.
Calling the determination “unconstitutional and anti-federal”, helium cited Articles 258 and 280, and the 73rd Constitutional Amendment to allege that the Centre had taken distant the powers of the gram panchayats.
MGNREGA, which was introduced 20 years agone by the UPA-I authorities successful 2005, ensured respective rights for the mediocre and the communal people, including the close to work, Mr. Siddaramaiah recalled.
He argued that the repeal of MGNREGA would pb to accrued unemployment, migration, nonaccomplishment of minimum wage protection, exploitation of labour, reduced information of women successful labour, and hardship for Dalit and Adivasi families.
RSS idea
The Chief Minister charged that this was being done astatine the behest of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Referring to Manu Smriti, helium said it propagated the thought that women, Shudras, and Dalits should not person wealthiness and should unrecorded by moving for others.
He said that the RSS, inspired by specified ideology, was present attempting to instrumentality these ideas by curtailing the rights of the people.
He said that nether the caller VB-G RAM G Act, employment had been converted from a demand-driven strategy to a supply-driven one, with the Centre deciding wherever and erstwhile enactment would beryllium undertaken.
The Chief Minister, who holds the Finance portfolio, said the caller Act would enforce an further fiscal load of astir ₹3,000 crore annually connected the State government.
Earlier, the Centre bore 90% of expenditure nether MGNREGA. The caller instrumentality mandated States to lend 40% of the cost.
Rolling retired data, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that MGNREGA supported astir 12.16 crore workers crossed the country, of whom 6.21 crore were women, accounting for astir 54% of the workforce.
In Karnataka, determination were 71.18 lakh progressive MGNREGA workers, including 36.75 lakh women. He had written to Mr. Modi, connected December 31, 2025, opposing the legislation.
‘Will wounded BJP-ruled States too’
Mr. Shivakumar said the contented was not governmental but acrophobic the livelihoods of the poor. He questioned the soundlessness of BJP leaders connected the substance and said that adjacent BJP-ruled States would beryllium adversely affected by the caller law.
