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The two-day day-and-night protestation organised by the Congress successful beforehand of Kerala Lok Bhavan demanding that the Union authorities reconstruct the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) successful its archetypal signifier ended successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday greeting with enactment leaders vowing to measurement up the conflict until their demands are met.
The protestation is portion of the nationwide ‘MGNREGA Bachao Sangram’ run launched by the Congress against replacing the MGNREGA with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar-Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Sunny Joseph MLA, who inaugurated the concluding league of the protest, said MPs belonging to the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) person persistently raised the contented wrong and extracurricular Parliament.
“The Congress took up this protestation for the poor, toiling workers, particularly the ample fig of women, who beryllium connected the MGNREGA. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance introduced the strategy to amended the lives of the toiling classes. It besides implemented a workplace indebtedness waiver of ₹80,000 crore. Our enactment has ever stood for the rights and betterment of the lives of workers and farmers,” helium said.
Mr. Joseph said the Congress-led UDF, which has been opposing “the anti-people policies” of the Union and State governments, volition travel to powerfulness successful Kerala with implicit 100 seats successful the upcoming Assembly elections.
‘An insult to Mahatma Gandhi’
Mahila Congress nationalist caput (in-charge of Kerala) Esther Rani said the sanction alteration of the MGNREG strategy is “an insult to Mahatma Gandhi.” The BJP, which is focussing connected privatisation of each nationalist assets, does not privation immoderate payment enactment astatine the grassroot-level, she said.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) person N.K. Premachandran, MP, said the BJP was dismantling the MGNREGS “as portion of a larger onslaught connected Gandhian and Nehruvian bequest to physique a theocratic state.”
“Earlier, MGNREGS was designed arsenic a statutory close for the workers. However, successful the caller one, it has been turned into conscionable different payment scheme. In MGNREGS, the Union authorities bore 100% of the labour cost. Now, it contributes lone 60%, portion States are forced to lend 40%. Even the naming of the scheme, utilizing analyzable phrasing, is portion of the larger docket of forcing Hindi connected non-Hindi States,” helium said.
KPCC moving president A.P. Anilkumar, MLA, said the 3rd signifier of the protests volition beryllium held connected January 30.
