Chandigarh, Dec. 31 -- Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government should have been gracious enough to acknowledge the role of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha while defending the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

"This is what makes Congress unique and distinct, that our policies are such that even our critics have to defend these and convene a special session for that purpose," Warring said in a statement here, while pointing out that MGNREGA was the Congress government's scheme launched way back in 2005, and the AAP government was defending it even after twenty years.

Warring said the AAP leaders were...