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All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Sunday criticised the Union authorities for rushing done changes to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and, successful its stead, bringing successful the VB-G RAM G Act, saying that the amendments volition person superior consequences for the agrarian poor
Addressing presspersons astatine his residence successful Kalaburagi, Mr. Kharge said that the projected changes should person been subjected to elaborate treatment and scrutiny.
Instead, the Centre has hurriedly replaced MGNREGA with a otherwise named scheme, he said.
Questioning the rationale down renaming the MGNREGA strategy arsenic VB-G RAM G Bill 2025 (the Bill has since received the Presidential assent to go an Act), Mr. Kharge asked what the Modi-led authorities hopes to execute by simply changing the scheme’s sanction portion weakening the guarantees provided successful MGNREGA.
“Earlier, workers were guaranteed employment and timely wages. Today, their basal close has been taken distant by the Union government,” helium said.
Referring to the VB-G RAM G Act, helium said that the authorities has efficaciously diluted the Right to Work.
“The Central authorities itself admits that determination volition beryllium astatine slightest 60 days with nary work. What are the mediocre expected to bash during that period? This is thing but an onslaught connected their livelihoods,” helium said.
Mr. Kharge pointed retired that MGNREGA acted arsenic a lifeline for millions during the COVID-19 pandemic and had earned planetary recognition.
He questioned the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the scheme. “What was incorrect with MGNREGA that helped the mediocre past an unprecedented crisis?” helium asked.
The seasoned person accused the BJP-led Central authorities of archetypal opposing payment schemes launched during the UPA authorities era and aboriginal reintroducing them by simply changing their names.
Stating that the Centre lacks semipermanent imaginativeness and is acting against Constitutional principles, Mr. Kharge said that the Central authorities is systematically dismantling societal information measures and pushing privatization crossed sectors.
Mr. Kharge besides condemned the Union authorities for replacing the Atomic Energy Act with the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill 2025.
He said that the Bill volition weaken nationalist oversight and beforehand privatisation. The Congress volition reason the SHANTI Bill some wrong and extracurricular Parliament by intensifying agitation crossed the nation.
