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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Saturday (May 9, 2026) accused the Modi Government of wiping retired the rights of the mediocre arsenic helium slammed it for doing distant with the MGNREGA and “finishing disconnected the close to work”.
Mr. Kharge accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre of having pre-planned the elimination of the close to enactment for the poor.
“The Modi Government, earlier sidesplitting the MGNREGA, had already strangled the ‘Right to Work’, torturing crores of mediocre people,” helium alleged successful a station successful Hindi connected X.
Mr. Kharge said according to a latest report, the fig of families that received enactment nether the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) dropped by 44 lakh successful 2025-26 and that of labourers who got employment fell by 67 lakh.
The Congress main besides claimed that the fig of families receiving afloat 100 days of employment dropped by 40.5% and determination was a 21.5% diminution successful the fig of idiosyncratic days.
Every MGNREGA household has suffered an mean income nonaccomplishment of ₹1,221, helium added.
“VB GRAM G has not yet been implemented, and labourers person been near to rotation helplessly from doorway to door,” helium said.
“On 1 hand, the BJP Government is withholding crores of rupees owed to States, portion connected the other, it has imposed a 40% fiscal load connected states nether the caller framework, states that are already grappling with a shortage of resources,” the person of absorption successful the Rajya Sabha said.
“The person of prime capitalists, the BJP Government, is afloat committed to wiping retired the rights of the mediocre and this is what genuinely exposes its existent argumentation and intent towards them,” Mr. Kharge alleged.
The Centre enacted the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act successful December 2025, replacing the MGNREGA.
