Congress Alleges Modi Authorities is Misappropriating MGNREGA Credit score

The Congress on Saturday (December 13, 2025) focused the Narendra Modi authorities over the proposed renaming of the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act (MGNREGA), claiming that the Prime Minister is now searching for to take credit score for the “revolutionary scheme” that he had earlier referred to as a “monument of failure”.

“It’s one more approach of erasing Mahatma Gandhi from our nationwide psyche, particularly from the villages the place he stated India’s soul resides. This transfer can also be nothing however a beauty change to paper over the deliberate neglect being meted out to this scheme. MGNREGA staff have been demanding larger wages, however the Centre has been lowering allotted funds for the scheme 12 months after 12 months,” Congress normal secretary (organisation) Ok.C. Venugopal stated in a publish on social media platform X.

Mr. Venugopal stated the arrears preserve piling up and accused the federal government of crafting a method “to engineer a sluggish loss of life for the scheme”.

“In actuality, this Authorities has no intent of delivering welfare and is merely placing up a pretence when it has run out of concepts. However Mr. Modi, rename all of it you need, the individuals comprehend it was Dr. Manmohan Singh ji and Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji who introduced this transformative scheme to each village of India,” he stated.

His get together colleague and Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh stated that the Modi authorities is a “grasp” at renaming schemes and requested what was unsuitable with the present title.

Mr. Ramesh claimed that the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was modified to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, and the agricultural LPG distribution programme was rebranded as Ujjwala.

“They hate Pandit Nehru however it appears additionally they hate Mahatma Gandhi. What’s unsuitable with the title Mahatma Gandhi, why rename the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act to Pujya Bapu Employment Assure Scheme?” Mr. Ramesh requested.

On Friday (December 12), the Union Cupboard is claimed to have permitted a Invoice to rename the MGNREGA and enhance the variety of work days. The scheme will now be renamed as ‘Poojya Bapu Grameen Rozgar Yojna’, and the variety of work days beneath it might be elevated from 100 days at current to 125 days, The Hindu had reported.

MGNREGA, often known as NREGA, was enacted in 2005 to make sure the livelihood of rural households by offering no less than 100 days of assured wage employment in a monetary 12 months to each family whose grownup members volunteer to do unskilled guide work.