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The Congress Working Committee (CWC), scheduled to conscionable connected December 27, volition determine connected the party’s aboriginal people of enactment against the Union government’s determination to replace the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G), AICC spokesperson Kannan Gopinathan said successful Puducherry connected Monday (December 22, 2025).
Addressing a property league astatine the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee office, helium contended that the Centre’s intent was to “murder” the MGNREGA authorities brought successful by the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The BJP government’s determination was an insult to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and federalism, added Mr. Gopinathan.
“Our agrarian occupation strategy was recognised worldover for its entreaty among mediocre people. It was an enactment of giving radical the close to employment, alternatively than treating them arsenic specified subjects. The Centre, by replacing MGNREGA, has murdered a pro-poor legislation. Our CWC volition determine connected the aboriginal people of action, including whether to instrumentality ineligible recourse connected the subject,” helium said.
When it was pointed retired that 1 of the arguments for replacing the MGNREGA was the “corruption” progressive successful the execution of the scheme, helium said “the Central authorities nurtures a thought that everybody, different than them, was corrupt. But it was not true. The MGNREGA was debated for months by the Standing Committee and universally accepted for its relation successful providing economical information for the poor.”
The implementation of the caller authorities would summation the fiscal load of the States. When the Centre retains full power implicit the rules, the fiscal load of the States would spell up substantially, arsenic 40% of the expenses person to beryllium incurred by the State government.
Former Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy, Member of Parliament and PCC main V. Vaithilingam, erstwhile Minister M. Kandasamy, and elder vice-president of PCC P.K. Devadoss were present.
