The MGNREGA protest Varanasi scheme is not only a means of employment for poor workers, farmers and landless families, but it is their legal right. Millions of people in the country are supporting MNREGA every year. In such a case, if the government steps towards weakening or eliminating MNREGA, it is simply to take away the rights of poor workers.
In Varanasi, when @NSui students were peacefully demonstrating in support of MGNREGA protest Varanasi and saving employment of the workers, the administration is a direct attack on democracy. Lathi charges and arrested to suppress the voices of the students proves that the government has been afraid of questions.
MGNREGA protest Varanasi is no begging, a law passed by Parliament, which guarantees at least 100 days of employment to every rural family. If the budget is being reduced, work is being reduced, the payment is being delayed, then these are part of the conspiracy to weaken MNREGA slowly.
The Narendra Modi government is chanting “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” and is taking away the legal rights of employment from the poor workers on the other. Police actions on students raising their voices proves that the government is taking the way to rule, not the government, not the dialogue.
The Congress party and their activists are making it clear that every attempt to end MGNREGA protest Varanasi will be opposed to the adverse. It is not a crime to protest in a democracy. A peaceful demonstration is the fundamental right of every citizen. If the government takes away this right, the country will follow the path of dictatorship.
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The incident of Varanasi is not only an attack on students, it is an attack on every poor worker that is dependent on MNREGA. Today, the students beat up, tomorrow they will press the voice of the workers. It is therefore important that people, youth and workers together raise their voices against this injustice.
Saving MNREGA means to save employment of the poor, and to save democracy. The government has to understand that use experiment is not going to press the voice, but faster.
