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Top Congress leaders connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) are attending a important gathering of the moving committee, the party's highest decision-making body.
They are deliberating connected the existent governmental concern successful the state and the party's further enactment against the authorities aft it replaced the UPA-era agrarian employment strategy Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA), with the caller Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G).
The extended gathering of the Congress Working Committee is being attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha and erstwhile enactment president Rahul Gandhi, too main ministers of the Congress-ruled States of Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh.
Presidents of Pradesh Congress Committees (PCC) are besides contiguous astatine the meeting.
The gathering comes up of adjacent year's Assembly polls successful Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and the leaders are expected to deliberate connected the enactment strategy.
The Opposition enactment is acceptable to finalise its enactment program to antagonistic the authorities aft it repealed the MGNREGA, 2005.
The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill that replaced the UPA-era MGNREGA was passed during the precocious concluded wintertime league of Parliament. President Droupadi Murmu has already fixed her assent to it.
The Congress and different Opposition parties person taken beardown objection to the caller instrumentality replacing MGNREGA, stating that it is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi arsenic his sanction has been removed from its title.
The caller instrumentality makes a statutory warrant of 125 days of wage employment successful a fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members unpaid to undertake unskilled manual work.
However, alternatively of being a Central scheme, the caller instrumentality provides that the Centre and the States volition person to stock a 60:40% ratio backing for the scheme.
