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With the Cabinet approving a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Congress connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) said the PM Modi authorities is simply a "master" astatine renaming schemes and asked "what is incorrect with the sanction Mahatma Gandhi" that it had to instrumentality this step.
Reacting to the development, Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the Modi authorities is simply a "master" astatine renaming schemes and laws.
"They renamed the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, and the agrarian LPG organisation programme to Ujjwala. They are experts successful re-packaging and branding," helium told PTI.
"They hatred Pandit Nehru but it seems they besides hatred Mahatma Gandhi. What's incorrect with the sanction Mahatma Gandhi, wherefore rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to Pujya Bapu Employment Guarantee Scheme?" Mr. Ramesh said.
The Union Cabinet connected Friday (December 12) approved a Bill to rename the MGNREGA and summation the fig of enactment days, sources said. According to them, the strategy volition present beryllium renamed arsenic 'Poojya Bapu Grameen Rozgar Yojna', and the fig of enactment days nether it would beryllium accrued from 100 days astatine contiguous to 125 days.
Congress wide caput in-charge organisation K.C. Venugopal said the PM, who erstwhile called MGNREGA a "monument of failure", is present renaming it to assertion recognition for the revolutionary scheme.
"It's yet different mode of erasing Mahatma Gandhi from our nationalist psyche, particularly from the villages, where, helium said, India's psyche resides," helium alleged.
"This determination is besides thing but a cosmetic alteration to insubstantial implicit the deliberate neglect being meted retired to this scheme," Mr. Venugopal said connected X.
MGNREGA workers person been demanding higher wages, but the Centre has been reducing allocated funds for the strategy twelvemonth aft year, helium said.
"The arrears support piling up, and it seems to beryllium a cautiously planned strategy to technologist a dilatory decease for the scheme. In reality, this authorities has nary intent of delivering payment - and is simply putting up a pretence erstwhile it has tally retired of ideas," Mr. Venugopal alleged.
"But Mr Modi, rename it each you want, the radical cognize it was Dr Manmohan Singh ji and Smt Sonia Gandhi ji who brought this transformative strategy to each colony of India," helium said.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, amended known arsenic MGNREGA oregon NREGA, is simply a flagship strategy of the authorities aimed astatine enhancing livelihood information of households successful the agrarian areas by providing astatine slightest 100 days of guaranteed wage employment successful a fiscal twelvemonth to each household whose big members unpaid to bash unskilled manual work. It was enacted successful 2005.
