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Accusing the BJP-led Union authorities of “dismantling” the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and replacing it with a caller model that alters the rights-based employment guarantee, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Tuesday said MGNREGA was repealed retired of “allergy” to Mahatma Gandhi’s name.
“The Centre has scrapped MGNREGA and brought successful a caller instrumentality called VB-G RAM G. Gandhiji’s sanction itself causes them an allergy,” helium said, calling for a sustained, people-led mass question from the colony to the State level until the caller Act is withdrawn.
Addressing a Congress preparatory gathering for the “MGNREGA Bachao Sangram” campaign successful Bengaluru, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the earlier instrumentality enabled agrarian workers to request enactment and wages, and noted that 12.16 crore workers — including 6.21 crore women — had been employed nether MGNREGA since its inception during the UPA era. He alleged that the caller model shifted fiscal burdens to States and diluted panchayat-level planning.
Pointing retired that the contented was discussed astatine the caller All India Congress Committee (AICC) enforcement committee meeting, helium said a sustained question connected the lines of farmers’ protestation was needed to unit changes successful laws. The State Cabinet volition sermon convening a two-day peculiar league of the legislature to statement the interaction of the caller instrumentality and follow a resolution, helium said.
“Earlier, agrarian workers could request enactment for up to 365 days successful their ain villages and adjacent attack courts if enactment was denied. Now, the Centre decides done notifications wherever radical should work. This is not Dasharatha Ram oregon Sita Ram oregon Kaushalya Ram. This is Nathuram — the 1 who killed Gandhiji,” helium said.
Role of panchayats reduced
Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar said the caller backing ratio and centralised support of works would trim the relation of panchayats and summation the load connected States. “If the Centre is going to determine everything astir the works, what volition the panchayats do? They killed Gandhiji past and present they are sidesplitting his legacy,” helium said.
The Congress volition behaviour a phased agitation opening connected January 26 with padyatras of 5 to 10 km successful each Assembly constituencies, culminating successful memorandum submissions astatine taluk offices demanding restoration of MGNREGA. Mr. Shivakumar announced that helium would personally articulation padyatras successful 4 to 5 locations, including Shikaripur.
Local assemblage polls
Apart from MGNREGA, the gathering besides served arsenic a level to contented organisational instructions up of section assemblage elections. The enactment asked territory and taluk units to hole for polls to municipal corporations, zilla, taluk, and gram panchayats implicit the adjacent 4 to 5 months, pursuing caller Supreme Court directions to guarantee timely section assemblage elections.
Beware of SIR
Mr. Shivakumar asked enactment workers to stay vigilant during the forthcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR), calling it “decisive for aboriginal elections”. The gathering besides reviewed signature campaigns, territory tours, and assignment of observers.
