CHANDIGARH, Dec. 30 -- Punjab Finance Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema today launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Union Government, accusing it of systematically dismantling the MGNREGA scheme and stripping the poor of their right to a livelihood. Speaking in the Vidhan Sabha in support of a resolution against the recent changes and the renaming of the MGNREGA scheme to 'Viksit Bharat - GRAM G', Cheema labelled the move as an "assault on the stomachs of the marginalised."
During his address, the Finance Minister read a poignant letter from a woman worker, Charanjit Kaur, which highlighted the fears of thousands of rural labourers. Kaur's letter expressed the anxiety that changing rules and centralised village lists would deprive ...