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West Bengal Congress leaders and workers successful Kolkata held a protest against the renaming of MGNREGA connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) and marched to Raj Bhavan wherever galore courted arrests, including State Congress president Shubhankar Sarkar.
Over 38 Congress leaders and workers were arrested during the protests arsenic galore scuffled with the Kolkata Police. They were not allowed to scope the Governor’s residence and were not capable to conscionable with the politician to dependable their concerns.
“The strategy has been stopped successful West Bengal for implicit 3 years. We privation to cognize wherefore the communal radical successful agrarian Bengal volition not get enactment owed to the failures of the State and Central government.” Mr. Sarkar said during the protests. They besides demanded that State government telephone for an all-party gathering successful the State and instrumentality up the substance successful Delhi to merchandise funds for West Bengal which has been suspended since 2022.
“We powerfully condemn the Modi government’s determination to region Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the 100 Days’ Work (MGNREGA) programme and rename it arsenic “VB-G Ram G”. By misusing Lord Ram’s name, Narendra Modi is tarnishing the revered representation of Ram,” an authoritative connection from the Congress State Committee said.
Congress leaders said that removing Gandhiji’s sanction from the 100-day enactment strategy is an insult to the Father of the Nation and also an insult to his imaginativeness for the upliftment of rural India and its people.
They besides alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been systematically trying to dismantle this strategy since they came to powerfulness successful 2014. Notably, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was enacted successful 2005 by the Congress-led Manmohan Singh government.
The Trinamool Congress authorities and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected aggregate occasions person already condemned the removal of Gandhiji’s sanction from the scheme. In retaliation, Ms. Banerjee’s authorities decided to rename their State’s job warrant strategy arsenic ‘Mahatma Shree’ to honour Mahatma Gandhi.
