Congress to hold convention against Centre’s move to replace MGNREGA

New Delhi: All India Congress Committee (AICC) will hold a convention of workers, activists and others linked to the defunct Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) here on Thursday as part of the party's agitation against the Centre replacing it with G RAM G employment scheme.

Congress spokesperson Sandeep Dikshit said party leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi are likely to attend the meeting. "Many workers from across the country are arriving for a dialogue on MGNREGA. These are the people who have used MGNREGA in their villages to build roads, schools, panchayat buildings, ponds, and water harvesting plants... The Modi government is destroying this entire process," Dikshit said.

The conference comes at a time when Congress campers are having mixed views on the real ground effect of the party's ongoing agitation demanding reinstatement of MNREGA.


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