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The Congress connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) slammed the Narendra Modi authorities after President Droupadi Murmu's address to the associated sitting of some houses of Parliament, alleging the Cabinet clears the code each twelvemonth similar a recycled ritual, reusing the aforesaid acceptable of claims without information oregon accountability.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Viksit Bharat slogan is repeated loudly, "yet it has nary wide goals, timelines and measurable outcomes".
Every twelvemonth the Union Cabinet clears the President's Address similar a recycled ritual, reusing the aforesaid acceptable of claims without information oregon accountability.
The slogan of Viksit Bharat is repeated loudly, yet it carries nary wide goals, nary timelines and nary measurable outcomes.
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"While making lofty speeches connected 'development', the anti-poor, pro-crony Modi authorities has mercilessly dismantled MGNREGA -- an Act that guaranteed the Right to Work -- snatching distant the lone root of livelihood for crores of workers," Mr. Kharge said connected X.
"What benignant of Viksit Bharat is this, wherever the mediocre are denied the means to survive, and dignity is sacrificed for slogans," helium posed.
In a associated sitting of Parliament, marking the opening of the Budget session, President Murmu urged members of some Houses to basal agreed connected issues specified arsenic the resoluteness for Viksit Bharat, and run for Swadeshi and nationalist security, portion asserting that these issues were beyond each differences.
She besides said the authorities volition proceed to accelerate the momentum of "reform express" arsenic she listed assorted economical and societal initiatives taken to marque India a developed federation by 2047.
Asked astir the President's address, Congress wide caput organisation K.C. Venugopal said, "Nothing was there; conscionable a repetition of things they person done which they person told earlier also." "Totally hollow code prepared by the authorities that is customarily delivered by the President. Hollow promises of the authorities are repeated again and again," Mr. Venugopal said.
On absorption uproar arsenic the President mentioned the caller VB-G RAM G Act, helium said, "We protested astatine that constituent successful time. We are already connected an agitation for the withdrawal of the VB law. That is wherefore I said these are hollow promises of the Union government." President Murmu's notation to the VB-G RAM G Act successful her code to the associated sitting of some houses of Parliament sparked protests from absorption parties, which raised slogans, demanding a rollback of the law.
The President said the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act would supply a warrant for 125 days of work, and halt corruption and leakages. She besides asserted that it would supply a caller impetus to agrarian development.
Speaking with reporters successful the Parliament House analyzable connected the President's address, Congress MP Manish Tewari said, "The honourable President is lone the spokesperson of the authorities for the purposes of this address. The code is written by the authorities and cleared by the cabinet.”
"Under those circumstances, it was an insipid address; determination was nary imaginativeness which was laid out, lone a database of alleged achievements of the authorities was work out. So, if determination is 1 connection to picture the address, it is -- insipid," Mr. Tewari said.
He asserted the absorption wants the VB-G RAM G Act beryllium repealed and MGNREGA beryllium reinstated.
