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The Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has called for a State-level consultation to reason what it describes arsenic the “black law” introduced by the BJP-led NDA authorities astatine the Centre, alleging that it weakens the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and threatens the livelihood of the agrarian poor.
The consultation, to beryllium held connected Monday, December 29, astatine 10.30 a.m. astatine the APCC bureau successful Vijayawada, volition bring unneurotic leaders of governmental parties, nationalist organisations, labour unions, farmers’ associations, and antiauthoritarian groups. The gathering is being organised successful the backdrop of the Congress party’s nationwide question to support agrarian employment and reason the Centre’s caller legislation.
Speaking connected the issue, APCC vice-president Kolanukonda Shivaji said the MGNREGA, “envisioned by Congress person Sonia Gandhi and implemented by the UPA authorities successful 2005, successful enactment with Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals, provided a ineligible close to employment for agrarian families by guaranteeing astatine slightest 100 days of wage employment.
He said the Act importantly strengthened the bargaining powerfulness of the agrarian poor, particularly landless labourers, helped rise wages, and worked towards inclusive welfare.
According to him, the caller instrumentality centralises control, imposes rigid bureaucratic regulations, weakens States’ fiscal capacity, and amounts to an onslaught connected constitutionally guaranteed rights, including the close to equality and the close to work.
Calling upon radical from the backward classes, SC, ST, and number communities to unite, Mr. Shivaji urged citizens to enactment successful the question to support agrarian livelihoods and exposure the BJP’s “feudal policies.”
