India, May 10 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the Modi Government of wiping out the rights of the poor as he slammed it for doing away with the MGNREGA and "finishing off the right to work".

Kharge accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre of having pre-planned the elimination of the right to work for the poor.

"The Modi Government, before killing the MGNREGA, had already strangled the 'Right to Work', torturing crores of poor people," he alleged in a post in Hindi on X. Kharge said according to a latest report, the number of families that received work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) dropped by 44 lakh in 2025-26, and that of labourers who got employment fell b...