Updated On: 23 August, 2024 11:07 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Kharge recalled that in 2005, on this day, the then Congress-led UPA government enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to ensure `Right to Work` to crores of people in rural India

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. Pic/PTI
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday slammed the Centre over its handling of the MGNREGA, alleging that the present state of the scheme is "a living monument of Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s "betrayal" of rural India.
Kharge recalled that in 2005, on this day, the then Congress-led UPA government enacted the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to ensure `Right to Work` to crores of people in rural India.