Chennai, Jan. 31 -- Hatred for Mahatma Gandhi and the dislike for people's welfare is the reason for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government at the CEntre dismantling the MGNREGA, 100-day employment guarantee programme for the rural poor christened after the Father of the Nation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin charged on Saturday, puncturing the claim that the new scheme,VGB-RAM-G, would provide 125 workdays.
The union BJP government had dumped the MGNREGA, which remained the backbone of the rural economy and replaced it with anew one, he said.
They are doing this since they have hatred for the Mahatma and a dislike for the people's welfare," he said, addressing a government function at Karaikudi in Sivaganga district in which he...