# Congress slams BJP on VB-G RAM G attendance fraud, cites Lord Ram hypocrisy 2026-10-13T09:06:57+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Congress on Tuesday (13 October) charged the BJP with an ‘attendance fraud’ in the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB-G RAM G) scheme, alleging a clone app is used to mark mass attendance with stored photos. Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh posted on X, saying the BJP invokes Lord Ram while attacking the poor’s right to employment. Ramesh shared a media report claiming the fraud involves a fake version of the official National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app. He accused the BJP of ‘state-sponsored plunder of the poor’. The VB-G RAM G Act replaced the two-decade-old MGNREGA from 1 July. No BJP response was reported. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both outlets carry near-identical wire copy of Jairam Ramesh’s attack, making the coverage uniform straight reporting. The Congress charge, that a clone app is used for fake attendance under the VB-G RAM G scheme, is repeated verbatim by each outlet, with no BJP response or independent verification included. Neither outlet adds context about the scheme’s launch on 1 July or its replacement of MGNREGA beyond basic background. The lack of government rebuttal or detail on the alleged fraud leaves the story as a one-sided political allegation, which the reader must assess without counter-framing. The concrete next step would be any official probe or BJP comment, which are absent from both reports. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - thehindu.com (neutral report) Straight wire copy of Congress statement, no rebuttal added. - deccanherald.com (neutral report) Straight wire copy of Congress statement, no rebuttal added. This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: BJP, Congress, Jairam Ramesh, Lord Ram, MGNREGA, VB G RAM G Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/congress-slams-bjp-on-vb-g-ram-g-attendance-fraud-cites-lord-ram-hypocrisy/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/congress-slams-bjp-on-vb-g-ram-g-attendance-fraud-cites-lord-ram-hypocrisy/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/