Chandigarh, Dec. 30 -- Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday 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, he 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 children of education ...