Rahul Gandhi takes dig at PM Modi for 'U-turn' on MGNREGA

Congress leer Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for his "U-turn" on MGNREGA scheme, and thanked him for understanding its vision and allocating an ditional budget of Rs 40,000 crore for it.

" prime minister has approved an ditional budget of Rs 40,000 crore for MNREGA scheme created during UPA era. We express our gratitude to him for understanding vision of MNREGA and promoting it," he said in a tweet in Hindi.

Gandhi also used hashtag -- "ModiUturnMNREGA" -- while putting out a video clip of prime minister's speech in Parliament after he assumed power in 2014.

"MGNREGA is a living monument of your failures," Modi h said about scheme in his speech in Parliament while ting that even after 60 years of independence, Congress h to send people to dig up ditches.