KHARGE LAUNCHES MAJOR ATTACK ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AT CWC MEET

Congress chief calls for formulating a national strategy by the Congress for the future as he attacks BJP-led Centre for undermining democracy, Constitution and the rights of citizens in the country.

- ANAND SINGH

During the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, the party's highest decision-making body, party president Mallikarjun Kharge raised the issue of replacing of MGNREGA with the VB GRAMGBill SIR, elections in five states and union territories, the misuse of central agencies in National Herald case, attack on Hindus in Bangladesh, and how the BJP and RSS were trying to vitiate the atmosphere during Christmas festivities.

During the meeting, as per sources, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also demanded to strengthen the party and decentralise the power under the Sangathan Srijan that has been undertaken in last one year.

In his opening remarks, Kharge mentioned that they have gathered to deliberate and formulate a strategy for the future at a time when democracy, the Constitution, and the rights of citizens are facing a grave crisis on all sides across the country.

Taking a swipe at the government, over replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Kharge said, “In the recently concluded Winter Session of Parliament, the Modi government has scrapped MGNREGA, leaving millions of poor and vulnerable people without support. In addition to kicking the poor in the stomach, the Modi government has stabbed them in the back.”

He said that scrapping of MGNREGA is an insult to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.

“As CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi recently wrote: MGNREGA realised the Mahatma’s vision of Sarvodaya (‘welfare of all’) and enacted the constitutional right to work. Its death is our collective moral failure one that will have financial and human consequences for crores of India’s working peoples for years to come. It is imperative, now more than ever, to unite and safeguard the rights that protect us all,” he said.