Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday hit out at his successor Vasundhara Raje over the suggestion to change National Rural Employment Guarantee Act into a scheme.
“This is the extreme height of Raje Government’s insenstivity ... to end MNREGA which is an Act. The BJP Government wants to change it into a scheme in every sector,” Gehlot said in a statement here.
MNREGA Act was primarily meant to provide job rights to unemployed in villages for their livelihood, Gehlot said. If MNREGA was changed into scheme under the State Government’s purview then it would lead to mess up and promote corruption, he said.