The Congress on Friday launched a scathing attack on the government over the repeal of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), alleging that “Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not want the law connected with Mahatma Gandhi” to run for long and people to have a legal right to work.

Senior Congress leaders and workers took out a march from the Congress office at 24, Akbar Road, to the Gandhi Smriti against the “constitutional right to work being snatched away by the Modi government”. However, they were stopped by the police and did not reach Gandhi Smriti.