Opposition sits on overnight protest in Parliament against passage of VB-G RAM G Bill

Opposition leaders staged overnight protestation dharna successful Parliament analyzable connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) night, portion protesting against the transition of the VB-G RAM G Bill that seeks to regenerate the MGNREGA agrarian employment programme and said they would instrumentality to the streets crossed the country.

Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha lawman person Sagarika Ghose accused the Union authorities of bulldozing the VB- G RAM G Bill, arsenic absorption MPs sat connected a 12-hour dharna successful the Parliament complex.

The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill was passed by Parliament amid opposition's protests, with the Rajya Sabha giving it its motion station midnight.

Ms. Ghose said the mode successful which the Modi authorities has brought successful this wholly "anti-poor, anti-people, anti-farmer, anti-rural poor" VBGRG Bill, and has done distant with the MGNREGA.

"This is an insult to India's poor, it is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi, it is an insult to Rabindranath Tagore. With conscionable 5 hours' notice, this Bill was fixed to us. We were not allowed a due debate," Ms. Ghose said.

"Our request was specified an important Bill should beryllium sent to the Select Committee and fto the Opposition parties analyse it, fto the Opposition parties sermon it, fto each stakeholders sermon it, but no, successful a show of tyranny, successful a execution of democracy," she said.

"We are present going to beryllium connected a 12-hour dharna, 12-hour dharna against the mode successful which the Modi authorities has brought this achromatic instrumentality against the radical of India, against the mediocre of India, against the agrarian mediocre of India,"she said.

Congress wide caput Randeep Singh Surjewala termed the time arsenic a "sad time for the country's labour unit and accused the Modi authorities arsenic anti-farmer and anti-poor.

"This is possibly the saddest time for the labourers of India. BJP authorities has attacked the livelihood of 12 crore radical by repealing the MGNREGA. They person proved that the Modi authorities is anti-farmer and anti-poor," helium alleged.

Congress person Mukul Wasnik said, "When MGNREGA was drafted, consultations were held for 14 months. It was passed by Parliament with consensus. The strategy would enactment an utmost load connected states. As a result, this strategy volition collapse." DMK person Tiruchi Siva said they shifted the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and Ambedkar to the backmost broadside of Parliament, wherever radical cannot see.

"Likewise they person removed Mahatma Gandhi's sanction himself. Without Gandhi determination is nary freedom, that is the full content successful this country. Even successful Britain parliament we are having Gandhi statue, but present successful Indian parliament his statue is hidden somewhere, and present the strategy which bore his name, his sanction has besides been removed," helium claimed.

He said the full Opposition is agitated, helium noted.