Opposition MPs hold protest march in Parliament complex, demand withdrawal of VB-G RAM G bill

With photographs of Mahatma Gandhi successful hand, respective absorption Members of Parliament (MPs) connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) took retired a protestation march wrong the Parliament House analyzable against the government's G RAM G bill and demanded its withdrawal.

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Behind a immense banner that had 'Mahatma Gandhi NREGA' written connected it, they marched from the Gandhi statue astatine Prerna Sthal to Makar Dwar, raising slogans against the government.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) K. Kanimozhi, T.R. Ballu, A. Raja, Indian Union Muslim League’s(IUML) E.T. Mohammed Basheer, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Arvind Sawant and Revolutionary Socialist Party’s (RSP) N.K. Premchandran, among others, participated successful the protest.

"Today Parliament is witnessing execution of democracy. By removing the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi from NREGA they are trying to termination the antiauthoritarian values arsenic good arsenic the ideology of the Father of the Nation," Mr. Venugopal told reporters.

Senior Congress person Sonia Gandhi joined the protesting MPs and participated successful the demonstrations astatine Makar Dwar.

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill to regenerate the UPA-era MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) is being debated successful Parliament.

The Opposition has been powerfully opposing the Bill, accusing the authorities of insulting Mahatma Gandhi and diluting the provisions of the MGNREGA, 2005.

According to the bill, it volition supply a statutory warrant of 125 days of wage employment successful a fiscal twelvemonth to each agrarian household whose big members unpaid to undertake unskilled manual work.

Within six months from the day of commencement of the VB-G RAM G Act, States volition person to marque a strategy accordant with the provisions of the caller law.