As the Centre diminished the price range for MGNREGA, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi hit out on the BJP-led authorities and alleged that the scheme is changing into a sufferer of the Centre’s repressive insurance policies. Gandhi touted the scheme as the inspiration of India’s rural economic system.
In a social media put up, Gandhi, who just lately concluded his bold Bharat Jodo Yatra, accused the Bhartiya Janata Party of “misusing the Aadhar card” and added that the incumbent authorities has sabotaged the actual idea of the centralised identification card. He opined that the federal government’s resolution to hyperlink the Aadhar card with the scheme beneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was a whole mismanagement.
“MGNREGA is the foundation of India’s rural economy. A revolutionary policy that has supported countless families. The MGNREGA scheme, which is running the homes of crores of families, is becoming a victim of the repressive policies of the Centre,” Gandhi stated in a Facebook put up in Hindi whereas citing a information report.
Kharge says poor won’t forgive PM Modi
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge additionally hit out on the Centre for “axing” the MGNREGA scheme, saying the poor won’t ever forgive the Narendra Modi authorities. “Modi authorities’s axe is engaged on MGNREGA. A 33-per cent minimize within the MGNREGA funds within the price range. The minister stated MGNREGA will not be a scheme to supply employment. States must pay 40 per cent cash for the Centre’s 100 per cent work.
“Narendra Modiji, don’t finish MGNREGA, the poor will not forgive,” Kharge stated in a tweet in Hindi. Gandhi alleged that first the price range for the MGNREGA was minimize and now, the linking of salaries with Aadhaar is being executed, and stated “both these are attacks on the income of the poor”.
“Centre misused Aadhar”
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities’s imaginative and prescient for the Aadhaar card was to supply comfort, identification and financial safety to individuals. But the current authorities will not be solely misusing this considering but additionally utilizing it in opposition to the poor, the previous Congress chief alleged.
In his Facebook put up, the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad in Kerala stated, “57 per cent of rural labourers will lose their daily wages if an Aadhaar card is made mandatory for MGNREGA. They (the government) do not have any policy to provide new employment. It has become the intention of this government only to take away the employment of people and create difficulties for the poor to get their rightful money.” “No new idea, no plan. Just one policy — torture the poor,” he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
