Overview
- Senior leaders including B.K. Hariprasad and Bhupinder Singh Hooda led a Chandigarh march opposing what they call the renaming and weakening of MGNREGA.
- Police stopped the procession from the Congress office to the Assembly, detained several leaders and workers, and later released them from Sector 3 police station.
- Hooda said the data presented in Parliament show a collapse in implementation, alleging neither guaranteed work nor compensation was provided as required.
- Congress accused the BJP government of virtually abolishing the rural jobs scheme in Haryana and criticized shifts in funding responsibility.
- Party leaders pledged sustained opposition to the changes, while the coverage carried no official response from the BJP or the state administration.