Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday alleged violence against migrant workers hailing from West Bengal, calling for sensitisation towards the "plight of migrants."
The Act guarantees 125 days of wage employment per rural household, up from the existing 100 days, for adult members willing to undertake unskilled manual work.
"Before every election, Mamta Banerjee and Prime Minister Modi play a game. They both play a game against each other to mislead the common people, sometimes using NRC, sometimes SIR, and sometimes referring to the current situation," Chowdhury said on Saturday.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury criticised PM Modi's "drama" remark against the Opposition, saying the Prime Minister is "himself a dramatist" and that "no one can compete with him in drama," responding sharply during the Parliament Winter Session.
Earlier in the day, over 272 eminent citizens, including 16 Judges, 123 retired bureaucrats, 14 Ambassadors, 133 retired armed forces officers, wrote an open letter condemning the repeated "assault on national constitutional authorities" by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Member of the Congress Working Committee, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, has written to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking urgent intervention to exempt the deprived Matua community of West Bengal from the strict documentary requirements under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and to form
Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda also emphasised that the people have decided to form a government led by Mahagathbandhan.
While the court had permitted only green firecrackers, Chowdhury questioned the government's failure to ensure compliance, saying that the ongoing suffocation faced by citizens reflects a gap between orders and ground reality.
The meeting, chaired by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, will be held virtually with various CEC members and senior leaders of the party set to attend. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will be joining online too while on a visit to the South American countries.
BJP MP and National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi strongly condemned the recent incident involving inappropriate behaviour towards Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai in the Supreme Court, terming it "highly condemnable and contrary to India's social, cultural, and constitutional value