Congress President Sonia Gandhi today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking advance payment of 21 days' wages to MGNREGA workers across the country to help them tide over the present crisis due to  COVID-19 lockdown.<br />''<br />''In her letter, Ms Gandhi said, a large number of rural poor are without work and around eight crore MGNREGA workers are devoid of an alternative source of income due to the countrywide lockdown. She demanded that they should be paid money in advance to tide over the current crisis.<br />''<br />''<br />