Chandigarh: Former Chhattisgarh chief minister and AICC general secretary in-charge, Punjab, Bhupesh Bhagel, on Friday lashed out at the BJP government at the Centre for, what he alleged, ``trying to snatch away the livelihood of the poor by scrapping MGNREGA ’’ and also condemned the AAP government in Punjab for failing to take remedial measures at local level.
Speaking at the ‘Save MGNREGA’ rally in Ludhiana, Bhagel also expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order in the state, saying there was complete anarchy as the gangsters were ruling the roost and that the Punjab police was working in collusion with the gangsters, he further alleged.
Bhagel held that the Congress will restore the MGNREGA at all costs and expressed confidence that the Congress will form the government in Punjab in 2027 and the rights and livelihood of the labourers would be restored.
Speaking on the occasion, the state party president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring pointed out how Congress’ Manmohan Singh government had brought in the law – MGNREGA - to provide livelihood to the poor and the marginalised.
The PCC president also criticised the AAP government in Punjab for doing just lip service on the issue. He said, till the time the MGNREGA was restored, it could have provided some interim relief to the affected people.
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