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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) came down heavy connected the Opposition AIADMK’s “silence” implicit the Centre altering and renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) arsenic the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission–Gramin (VBGRAMG).
In a societal media post, Mr. Stalin questioned: “What is the AIADMK’s basal connected VBGRAMG, which straight affects the agrarian poor?” He accused AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami of supporting the 3 workplace laws and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and wondered whether helium would widen enactment to VBGRAMG arsenic well.
He said the Centre had removed Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from MGNREGA and renamed the strategy successful Hindi, making it hard for radical to pronounce. “Carrying the sanction of Perarignar Anna [C.N. Annadurai], who won the conflict against Hindi imposition, successful the party’s name, should determination adjacent beryllium hesitation to reason this?” helium asked the AIADMK.
Mr. Stalin said portion the Centre would determine the presumption and conditions of VBGRAMG, the State governments would person to lend further funds from their exchequers. “Does the AIADMK judge this statement without immoderate protest? Would your person Jayalalithaa person agreed to this? For a enactment that bows truthful much, what is the request for the sanction Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam? I americium not asking these questions; the radical of Tamil Nadu are,” helium added.
