The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government merged the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan, launched by the United Progressive Alliance government, with the Khelo India programme for the development of sports, on Wednesday. In the process, the present government dropped the name of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi from the programme. Not that this was the first instance of the NDA government renaming a programme that was originally named after Gandhi. The Rajiv Rinn Yojana was subsumed in another scheme - the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. The move to drop Gandhi's name from the sports programme has left the Congress fuming. Party leader Tom Vadakkan warned the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government that "its clock is ticking".
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