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Fall in real wages, sabotage of MGNREGA marked ‘10 years of injustice’: Congress

The Congress on Tuesday accused the Narendra Modi government of six major injustices against workers: including a decline in real wages and the "slow death of MGNREGA", as it asserted that its guarantees under "shramik nyay" will dispel the darkness of the "anyay kaal".

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge posted on X the reasons why the Congress has introduced "shramik nyay" (labour justice), saying the growth rate of real wages was less than 1% per year between 2014-15 and 2021-22.

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