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Amitabh Dubey, in-charge of Research and Monitoring, Communications Department, Indian National Congress, connected Monday, slammed the BJP authorities astatine the Centre for renaming and designing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
He added that the National Herald lawsuit against the Congress leaders was a governmental witch hunt and a governmental vendetta by the Modi government.
He said some MGNREGA and the National Food Security Act were the UPA’s policies, which saved the radical during the COVID-19 crisis. Now, the MGNREGA has been fixed a shiny exterior. But the interior was rotten, helium said.
Earlier, the strategy applied everyplace and was self-selecting. It gave landless labourers bargaining power. Farmers couldn’t wage immoderate they wanted. There was a minimum wage. Now these aspects person been removed. Earlier, the authorities would fulfil the demand. Now, determination is simply a fund headdress and the authorities volition hole a definite amount, helium said.
The State has to wage 40% of the funds now. Earlier, the Centre was paying 90%. But present it volition lone wage 60%. The BJP authorities was bargaining with the States and not granting funds. The Centre was penalising the States for their ain spending. Gram sabha was being disempowered, helium said.
“The caller strategy was inferior to the erstwhile scheme. We volition reason this successful the parliament and the streets”, helium said.
Referring to the National Herald case, successful which a Delhi tribunal had rejected the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) wealth laundering ailment against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, helium said the Modi authorities had misused the investigating agency.
When you allege fraud, idiosyncratic has to beryllium defrauded. Has immoderate shareholder complained oregon anyone was defrauded, helium asked. He said it was a governmental witch hunt and governmental vendetta. The BJP authorities volition wage for it, helium added.
Madurai District Congress President V. Karthikeyan was present.
