Karnal, Jan. 11 -- Sirsa MP Kumari Selja on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government of deliberately weakening MGNREGA and said that the government is systematically conspiring to dismantle the constitutional and legal rights granted to the poor during the Congress regime.

Addressing the media at Sirsa, she said that MGNREGA has not merely been renamed, rather, its very spirit, especially the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi is being destroyed, something the Congress will never tolerate at any cost.

Selja said through the scheme, the Congress had provided the poor with a legal guarantee of minimum wages, but the BJP is now trying to dismantle this guarantee by altering rules and procedures.

This, she said, is a clear ...