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The Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee’s 100-kilometre-long padayatra, demanding the repeal of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act and restoration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), culminated astatine Mulky connected Thursday, February 12, evening. The padayatra started from Sullia connected Monday, February 9.
V.S. Ugrappa, erstwhile MP, was among the Congress leaders who took portion successful the relation held to culminate the 100-day-long padayatra.
On Thursday morning, a radical of Congress enactment activists launched the Mangaluru limb of the padayatra, starting astatine the Mahatma Gandhi statue astatine Lalbagh ellipse successful Mangaluru.
Addressing the activists, earlier the commencement of the Mangaluru limb of the padayatra, erstwhile curate Vinay Kumar Sorake said the Centre volition instrumentality full power implicit the works being taken up nether the VB-G RAM G Act, and the gram panchayat volition person nary accidental successful it. With the caller legislation, the Centre has reduced its stock of publication to 60% and raised the stock of the State to 40%. The caller authorities volition instrumentality distant the benefits that the earlier MGNREGA strategy provided to the agrarian folk, Mr. Sorake alleged.
Mr. Sorake joined K. Harish Kumar, District Congress President; Ivan D’Souza, MLC and different Congress activists successful the padayatra. An activistic dressed arsenic Mahatma Gandhi participated successful a tableau portion spinning the charkha. In different tableau, a radical of women Congress members, including erstwhile MCC councillor Appi, donned costumes depicting the agrarian workforce. A radical of labourers holding the sickle and different cultivation tools besides joined the padayatra.
