Rahul Gandhi to join AP Congress protest against MGNREGA replacement on February 2

Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y. S. Sharmila connected Tuesday said elder Congress person Rahul Gandhi volition sojourn Andhra Pradesh to instrumentality portion successful a State-wide protestation against the projected replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with the V. B. G. Ram G. Act.

Speaking to the media successful Delhi aft gathering Mr. Rahul Gandhi, Ms. Sharmila said helium had responded positively to her petition to sojourn the State and enactment successful the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee protest, scheduled to beryllium launched connected February 2 from Bandlapalli successful Anantapur district. She noted that the colony holds humanities value arsenic the spot wherever MGNREGA was archetypal launched by a Congress government.

Pointing retired that February 2 marks 20 years since the motorboat of the employment warrant scheme, Ms. Sharmila accused the BJP-led Union authorities of weakening the programme. She said the Congress would organise a large-scale protestation successful Andhra Pradesh, demanding the revival of MGNREGA successful the precise State wherever the strategy originated.