New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi destroyed MGNREGA by stripping workers of their right to negotiate daily wages, panchayats of their power, states of their authority and centralising it in Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed on Tuesday in a video he posted on X.

In the video, Gandhi was seen seated among workers from across the country. He said that with the VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, which replaced MGNREGA, the government wanted "to push the country back to the era of kings and maharajas, where all power and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few."

In the video, women from various states shared that steady employment allowed them to live with dignity and rights. A young woman from Meghalaya shared that the MG...