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The Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest decision-making body, volition conscionable connected December 27 to deliberate connected the government’s determination to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with caller legislation, sources said connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).
The MGNREGA was a flagship strategy introduced by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities successful its archetypal word successful 2005.
This would beryllium the archetypal gathering of the CWC pursuing the debacle the enactment faced successful the Bihar Assembly election. It besides assumes value arsenic the party’s strategy for the adjacent circular of Assembly elections successful the archetypal fractional of 2026 — successful Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and West Bengal — could beryllium framed.
The Opposition enactment is besides looking to up the ante implicit the repeal of the MGNREGA, and to conception a run astir the issue.
This is not simply a lawsuit of renaming MGNREGA but the “systematic execution of the world’s largest employment scheme”, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, speaking astir the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill.
The Union Government was taking distant the close to enactment from people, and “there volition beryllium a nationwide question against it”, Mr. Kharge said.
