MNREGA will exist as a symbol of Congress' failure: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday his government would not stop the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as it was a "living reminder" of the previous UPA government's "failures". Replying to the motion of thanks on the president's address in the Lok Sabha, the prime minister said: "You will have to agree that I have good political sense. I cannot do away with the MGNREGA, as it is a living reminder of your mistakes. I will keep on tom-tomming about it". The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which envisages providing minimum 100 days of employment to the rural poor, was started by the UPA government in 2005.