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Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) accused the Modi Government of bulldozing the MGNREGA, and asserted that the "black law" that seeks to repeal it volition beryllium defied the lakhs of enactment workers.
In a video message, she stated that by weakening MGNREGA, the Modi Government had attacked the interests of millions of farmers, labourers, and landless people. She alleged that implicit the past 11 years, the Centre had ignored the interests of the agrarian poor.
Ms. Gandhi said she vividly remembers the time 20 years ago, erstwhile Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister, and the MGNREGA Act was passed successful Parliament by consensus. The erstwhile enactment president said it was "such a revolutionary step," and became a means of livelihood for the deprived, the exploited, and the poorest of the poor.
She said that owed to MGNREGA, migration successful hunt of enactment came to a halt, a ineligible close to employment was provided, and gram panchayats were empowered. "Through MGNREGA, a factual measurement was taken towards realising the imagination of an India based connected Mahatma Gandhi's imaginativeness of Gram Swaraj," she said.
"But it is simply a substance of large regret that conscionable recently, the authorities ran a bulldozer implicit MGNREGA. Not lone was Mahatma Gandhi's sanction removed, but the signifier and operation of MGNREGA was changed arbitrarily — without immoderate deliberation, without consulting anyone, without taking the absorption into confidence," the Congress person alleged.
