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Congress MP and elder person Dipender Hooda alleged that the Centre had forcibly pushed done authorities that dismantles the world’s largest employment warrant programme started by the UPA authorities led by Manmohan Singh.
Speaking to reporters astatine Gandhi Bhavan on with Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president Mahesh Kumar Goud, alleged that the BJP-led authorities had systematically weakened the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) since 2014 by slashing budgets, withholding statutory dues to states, deleting occupation cards and excluding astir 7 crore workers done Aadhaar-based outgo mandates.
As a result, the strategy present provides hardly 50 to 55 days of employment annually nether the guise of reforms, helium said and warned that converting MGNREGA from a demand-driven, rights-based instrumentality into a centrally controlled, capped strategy amounted to a rollback of Article 21 of the Constitution. He besides criticised the Centre for shifting a fiscal load of astir Rs 50,000 crore onto states portion retaining afloat power implicit rules and credit.
Mr. Hooda called the determination an “open declaration of warfare connected agrarian livelihoods” and said Congress would reason the argumentation connected each platform, from Parliament to the streets.
He besides welcomed the court’s dismissal of the ED lawsuit successful the National Herald issue, terming it a decisive stroke to what helium described arsenic Modi-Shah’s authorities of vendetta. The verdict exposed the misuse of cardinal agencies to harass governmental opponents and vindicated Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Mr. Mahesh Goud stated that information had prevailed implicit governmental conspiracy, and reiterated the Congress party’s committedness to defending democracy, federalism and law institutions, which helium claimed were being dismantled by the BJP government. Former MP Madhu Yaskhi Goud and TPCC Media Committee Chairman Sama Rammohan Reddy were besides present.
