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G Ram G Bill Row: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has launched a scathing attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government, and Prime Minister Modi, after govt introduced the G Ram G bill, the rural employment guarantee scheme to replace the MGNREGA scheme, which was enacted by the UPA government in 2005 to ensure minimum wage and work for the poor.

The Leader of Opposition said that the G Ram G bill is an insult to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and that the ruling BJP government was trying to snatch the secure livelihood of the poor after it had destroyed the future of the nation through unemployment.

Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi through an X post, accusing his government of opposing the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and trying to weaken the MANREGA scheme from 2014.

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"Modiji has a deep hatred for two things - the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and the rights of the poor. MGNREGA is a living embodiment of Mahatma Gandhi's dream of village self-rule. It is a lifeline for millions of rural lives and proved to be their economic shield during COVID," he said.

"But Prime Minister Modi has always been irritated by this scheme, and for the past 10 years, he has been trying to weaken it. Today, he is determined to wipe out MGNREGA completely,” he added.

G Ram G Bill Introduced In House

Several opposition MPs protest, including Rahul Gandhi's sister, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and senior party leader Shashi Tharoor, raising several strong objections, after the G Ram G, the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill, was introduced in the house today afternoon.

Rahul Gandhi described the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as a law rooted in three key principles: the right to employment, the freedom for villages to choose their own development projects, and the central government covering the full cost of wages, along with 75 per cent of the material expenses.

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Now, Prime Minister Modi wants to change this… to concentrate all power solely in his own hands. The centre will decide the budget, schemes, and rules; states will be forced to bear 40 per cent of the expenses, and as soon as the budget is exhausted or during the crop harvest season, no one will get work for two months,” Gandhi said.


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