Surauth, Karauli. Under the ‘Save MNREGA’ campaign, Congress workers held a three-hour protest and sit-in demonstration at the Gandhi Memorial Ground in Surauth town on Wednesday, holding pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, against the central BJP government.
During this time, the Congress workers said that the central BJP government is weakening MNREGA by adopting anti-poor, anti-labor, and anti-farmer policies. The Congress workers said that the central BJP government has changed the name of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) and made several anti-people changes, which are completely unacceptable to the people of the country.
Pramod Tiwari, spokesperson for the Hindaun Dehat Block Congress Committee, said that the protest, which lasted from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, had Congress’s Hindaun Assembly in-charge Ravi Gurjar as the chief guest, and Hindaun Dehat Block Congress Committee President Yogendra Singh Mawai and District President of the Congress Women’s Wing Shardo Gurjar as special guests.
The protest was presided over by former District President and former Pradhan of Congress, Shivraj Meena. Addressing the protest, Congress’s Hindaun Assembly in-charge Ravi Gurjar said that the central government is ending the guarantee that was given during the Congress regime under the MNREGA scheme and is blacking out the scheme.
He added that previously, the central government contributed 100% of the funds for this scheme, but now the state government will have to bear 40% of the cost. We will not allow this arbitrary action of the central BJP government to continue. Therefore, this public awareness campaign, which started on January 3rd, will continue throughout the country and the state until January 29th.
Hindaun Dehat Block Congress Committee President Yogendra Singh Mawai said that the central government has destroyed the original form of MNREGA, which until now was a safety net for the lives of the poor. State Congress Committee Secretary Rajiv Shukla, former Pradhan Shivraj Meena,
and District President of the Congress Women’s Wing Shardo Gurjar said that these people have seized power through vote manipulation and are now changing names and shutting down welfare schemes, starting anti-people programs instead.
In the protest, State Congress Committee Secretary Rajiv Shukla, senior Congress leader Battu Member, Block Spokesperson Pramod Tiwari, Mohar Singh Saini, Vishram Meena, Ved Prakash Sharma, Dharam Singh Meena Patelpura, Hari Singh Subedar, Om Prakash Shukla, Kedar Meena, Purushottam Banshiwal, Kamlesh Mahawar,
Shyam Sundar Saini, Brijesh Bhardwaj, Rahul Meena, Rinku Meena, Jagdish Bhankar Dhandawali, Rampratap Parashar, Kalla Khan, Nawab Khan, Prem Raj Meena, Magan Meena, Atar Meena, Dilip Mahawar, Gaurav Singhal, Bhagwan Singh Bhukrawali, Manoj Mawai, Om Prakash Samadhiya, Rakesh Shukla, and a large number of other Congress office-bearers and workers were present.
During the protest, Congress workers from Surauth welcomed and honored Ravi Gurjar, the Congress in-charge for the Hindaun Assembly constituency, by presenting him with a sapling of wheat.
