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Hubballi: Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad has termed the recent incident of honour killing of a young woman by her father for marrying a man of low caste in Inam-Veerpur village of the taluk as inhuman.

“Even after completing 80 years of gaining Independence, it is unfortunate that we are ruled by the caste system. We are yet to gain equality and humanitarian values in society,” he told reporters, after meeting the people injured in connection to the case.

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The district administration and medical officials’ quick action has saved the lives of the injured people, while the arrival of the police team at the scene prevented a major mishap, the minister said.

Lad assured that the government was taking necessary steps in the case. “We are in constant touch with the Superintendent of Police (SP) and Deputy Commissioner (DC). The Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) was suspended on Friday since the official had failed to fulfill his duties. We are also in support of the bereaved family,” he added.

“I paid a visit to the village yesterday (Friday) and told the locals that a round of counseling would be undertaken for them,” the minister said.

Referring to people helping the deceased woman’s husband, Lad said, “I was informed that the family received no help during such a situation, which is equivalent of a social boycott. The entire government, however, stands by the boy’s family."

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New Delhi (PTI): Top Congress leaders on Saturday are attending a crucial meeting of the working committee, the party's highest decision-making body.

They are deliberating on the current political situation in the country and the party's further action against the government after it replaced the UPA-era rural employment scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) with the new Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G).

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The extended meeting of the Congress Working Committee is being attended by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and former party president Rahul Gandhi, besides chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states of Karnataka, Telangana and Himachal Pradesh.

Presidents of Pradesh Congress Committees (PCC) are also present at the meeting.

The meeting comes ahead of next year's assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and the leaders are expected to deliberate on the party strategy.

The opposition party is set to finalise its action plan to counter the government after it repealed the MGNREGA, 2005.

The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Bill that replaced the UPA-era MGNREGA was passed during the recently concluded winter session of Parliament. President Droupadi Murmu has already given her assent to it.

The Congress and other opposition parties have taken strong exception to the new law replacing MGNREGA, stating that it is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi as his name has been removed from its title.

The new law makes a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer to undertake unskilled manual work.

However, instead of being a Central scheme, the new law provides that the Centre and the states will have to share a 60:40 per cent ratio funding for the scheme.

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