Getting scrapped ‘G RAM G’ is goal says Tamil Nadu CM Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday asserted that getting repealed the BJP-led Centre’s new “G Ram G” legislation is his party’s goal.
Lashing out at the Centre for dropping Gandhiji’s name from the new 125 days rural employment (G RAM G) scheme, he dubbed the BJP-led regime as “anti-people.”
Making announcements on new initiatives, including canal improvement works here, the chief minister said while his government was fulfilling people’s aspirations by its people-centric work, the union government on the contrary was running an “anti-people regime.”
The BJP government has now deliberately paralysed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme which was the lifeline of rural India and had eradicated the poverty of millions of poor people.
“They have removed the name of Mahatma Gandhi himself, who is the identity of India worldwide, and replaced it with a Hindi name that most people do not understand,” he claimed.
The CM, also the chief of the ruling DMK alleged, “Words like secularism and unity are disliked by the BJP. That is precisely why they also dislike Gandhi, who emphasised these principles throughout his life.” It is not just Gandhi’s name that has been removed, the BJP regime has destroyed the very objective of the 100-day rural work scheme, which was undermined during the past 10 years by them. “Now, they have completely scrapped that scheme.”
The CM hit out at the Centre, saying it has already been not allocating funds due to the state. It was now adding more burden by tasking the state government to allocate 40 per cent funding under the new G Ram G scheme.
Citing the upto “60 days no work period” clause in the new rural employment Bill, the CM alleged that by doing so, the BJP regime has made it clear that it had nothing to do with the poor people.