People should defend MGNREGA: Manmohan Singh
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) programme as a gift of the previous UPA Government to the people and said they should defend it for themselves.
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New Delhi
"MGNREGA is the gift of UPA to our people to assist them to fight poverty, ignorance and disease...UPA is not in power now..,..It is up to the people to defend this revolutionary programme", the Congress quoted Dr Singh as saying in a tweet post today.
Dr Singh along with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi had also visited Bandlapalli village on Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the flagship programme of his previous government.
Bandlapalli is the village from where Dr Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had launched the programme on February 2, 2006.
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