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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) accused AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami of spreading falsehoods aft being incapable to rise his dependable against the Centre for diluting the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
In a station connected X, Mr. Stalin said adjacent erstwhile 100 days of enactment a twelvemonth nether MGNREGS was guaranteed by law, it was not decently implemented by the BJP authorities astatine the Centre, and determination were delays successful wage payments. “Now, nether a caller strategy burdened with respective conditions, is it truly going to supply 125 days of work?” Mr. Stalin wondered.
He alleged that the Union authorities has washed its hands of work and nary longer guarantees adjacent a azygous time of work.
“You erstwhile claimed to person exerted unit connected your masters not to region Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the scheme. But what has happened? The Centre does not look to accord you adjacent the slightest importance,” helium said, directing his words astatine Mr. Palaniswami.
“Has the authoritarian determination of shifting 40% of the fiscal load onto State governments been withdrawn? It has not. No 1 expected you to person the courageousness to question Delhi. But astatine slightest you could person avoided defending it. By defending the BJP authorities arsenic it digs a sedate for MGNREGS, which eradicated poorness and upheld the dignity of the people, you are efficaciously penning the decision of your governmental life,” Mr. Stalin told the Opposition leader.
