New Delhi: After former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reacted strongly to the cut in allowances of government employees. Manmohan Singh said, "There should not be a cut in the allowances of government employees. I believe that it is not necessary to impose such a decision on central employees and soldiers even in such difficult times."

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On Friday before Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi also strongly criticized the Modi government on this matter. Rahul, a Lok Sabha MP from the Congress, termed the central government's decision as inhuman and insensitive. Rahul Gandhi tweeted that, "Dearness Allowance (DA) of Central employees, pensioners and jawans serving the public, battling the corona instead of suspending the multi-million crore bullet train project and the Central Vista beautification project." Cutting is an insensitive and inhuman decision of the government."

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In the month of March, the Modi government had increased the dearness allowance for central employees and pensioners by four percent, but now it has been decided to stop this increase due to Corona crisis. The decision of the central government is expected to affect about 48 lakh central employees and 65 lakh pensioners.

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