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3mo ago

Karnataka Challenges VB-GRAM, Plans Padayatra as BJP Targets Siddaramaiah

The state says the new rural jobs framework dilutes MGNREGA and shifts roughly ₹3,000 crore a year onto its budget.

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Overview

  • Siddaramaiah formally opposed VB-GRAM in a December 31 letter to the Prime Minister, arguing the Centre’s funding share would fall from 90% to 60%.
  • The Congress government announced a week-long statewide padayatra beginning January 26 to press for restoring MGNREGA’s original right-to-work provisions.
  • Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar challenged Union Minister Pralhad Joshi to a public debate after Joshi alleged large-scale past corruption in MGNREGA.
  • The state plans a special legislature session to compare VB-GRAM with MGNREGA and to highlight the impact on 71.18 lakh registered workers in Karnataka.
  • Siddaramaiah marked becoming Karnataka’s longest-serving Chief Minister with over ₹800 crore in project launches in Vijayapura as the BJP leveled fresh allegations, including claims of illegal MUDA site allotments.