Criticising UP Chief Minister for double speak on MNREGA, Congress (I) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has said Mayawati is misleading dalits and poor on the central sponsored welfare schemes. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) – a poverty alleviation scheme for rural poor is entirely funded by central government. Scheme provides minimum 100 days guaranteed employment to rural poor in their own villages at the rate of Rs 120 per day. Initially Mayawati said this scheme was unnecessary and would not help the poor. However, the scheme was initiated in Uttar Pradesh but the money instead of reaching the poor was pocketed by corrupt ministers of Mayawati government. Rahul Gandhi has highlighted that now when the Assembly elections are drawing near Mayawati is saying that her government, if again comes to power, would modify the MGNREA scheme to give employment all the 365 days in a year. This shows Mayawati’s hypocrisy. How come that the central employment scheme which Mayawati said was unnecessary has now become so important to her, said Rahul Gandhi.
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