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The Opposition connected Monday (December 15, 2025) raised respective questions astir the caller agrarian employment instrumentality that seeks to regenerate the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, ranging from the rationale down removing the sanction of ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ to expanding the fiscal load connected States and ‘dismantling’ the rights-based architecture of the contiguous law.
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The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, was listed successful the supplementary database of concern of the Lok Sabha connected Monday (December 15, 2025).
Congress MP Saptagiri Ulaka, who chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, said that the authorities had ever intended to extremity the programme, citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that MGNREGA was a monument to the Congress-led UPA’s nonaccomplishment and was a strategy for digging pits.
“I don’t cognize what occupation they person with Bapu’s name. They wanted to decorativeness it due to the fact that it was a Congress scheme,” helium said and added nary of the recommendations regularly made by the sheet were reflected successful the caller Bill.
Asked astir the government’s move, Congress person Priyanka Gandhi questioned the volition down removing the ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ prefix. She said, “Whenever the sanction of a strategy is changed, determination are truthful galore changes that person to beryllium made successful offices, stationery... for which wealth is spent. What is the payment and wherefore is it being done?”
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Senior Trinamool Congress person and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien termed the government’s determination “an insult to Mahatma Gandhi.” “But then, are you surprised! These are the aforesaid radical who hero-worshipped the antheral who killed Mahatma Gandhi. They privation to insult Mahatma Gandhi and region him from history,” helium said.
Senior Congress person Shashi Tharoor called the contention implicit renaming MGNREGA arsenic “unfortunate”. “The conception of Gram Swaraj and the perfect of Ram Rajya were ne'er competing forces; they were the duplicate pillars of Gandhiji’s consciousness. Replacing the Mahatma’s sanction successful a strategy for the agrarian mediocre ignores this profound symbiosis. His last enactment was a testament to ‘Ram’; fto america not dishonour his bequest by creating a part wherever nary existed,” helium said successful a station connected X.
CPI(M) General Secretary MA Baby said that the Centre’s grandstanding implicit a full revamp of the strategy is an effort to fell the startling information that the basal rights-based model nether which it operates is being dismantled. “The subordinate is being passed connected to States, and the Centre tin present punish Opposition-ruled States by cutting down allocations. It volition besides codify into the instrumentality the technological interventions done which lakhs of radical are being deprived of their entitlements,” the Left person alleged. “It will worsen agrarian distress,” helium added.
RJD Rajya Sabha MP and elder person Manoj K. Jha said that it was 1 strategy that saved the agrarian mediocre from starvation during the pandemic. “I judge that the authorities is of the sentiment that if radical dice of hunger, fto them. Perhaps successful a mode it is bully that they removed Mahatma Gandhi’s sanction from the scheme’s name,” helium said.
