Amritsar, Jan. 8 -- Former Chhattisgarh CM and Punjab Congress in charge Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday said that the central government of having an "allergy" to Mahatma Gandhi and a problem with the poor, after it abruptly scrapped the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), the world's largest employment guarantee scheme.

Speaking to ANI, Baghel said,"The world's largest employment guarantee scheme, named after Mahatma Gandhi, was scrapped by this government. This government has an 'allergy' to Mahatma Gandhi, and secondly, they have a problem with the poor... There was no other scheme like it anywhere in the world, a scheme created by Dr. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi. It was this MNREGA scheme that provided fo...