Parliament Winter session Day 15 LIVE: VB-G RAM G Bill gets nod; Opposition sits on 12-hour dharna

TMC MPs Dola Sen, Sushmita Dev and Sagarika Ghose and different absorption members signifier a dharna astatine the Parliament House complex, successful New Delhi, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. Opposition leaders staged a 12-hour overnight protestation dharna successful the analyzable connected Thursday night, portion protesting against the transition of the VB-G RAM G measure that seeks to regenerate the MGNREGA agrarian employment programme. | Photo Credit: PTI

Opposition leaders staged a 12-hour overnight protestation dharna successful Parliament analyzable connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) night, protesting against the transition of the VB-G RAM G measure that seeks to regenerate the MGNREGA agrarian employment programme, and said they would instrumentality to the streets crossed the country.

Both Houses of Parliament passed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, replacing the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), amid protests from Opposition.

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In the Lok Sabha, Opposition members stormed the good of the House, tore copies of the Bill, and raised slogans connected Thursday. The Rajya Sabha, which began debating the Bill successful the evening, passed it by a dependable ballot past midnight amid vociferous protests.

Parliament connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) besides passed the atomic vigor bill, with the Rajya Sabha giving its motion to the authorities seeking to unfastened the tightly-controlled civilian atomic assemblage for backstage participation. 

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