New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, on Monday, shared the background of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), now reformed to Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgaar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill (VB-G RAM-G), in a post on the social media platform X and announced a public agitation campaign by Congress to repeal the abolition of MGNREGA.

Sharing the timeline of how Congress laid the foundation stone of the 2-decade-old act, Ramesh wrote, "In the 1970s, following a severe drought, the Congress Govt in Maharashtra under the leadership of V.P. Naik and inspiration of V. S. Page introduced the pioneering Employment Guarantee Scheme to deal with rural distress. Subsequently, in the early 1980s, t...