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News Topical, Digital Desk : After the VBG Ramji Bill to change the name and form of MNREGA was passed by both houses of Parliament, the opposition has now announced a major street fight against it.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has declared that he will fight for the withdrawal of this law by forming a nationwide front, saying that the very form of Lord Ram is against the states and villages.
MPs of Trinamool Congress, another major party in the opposition camp, also gave a clear message of strong opposition to this by staging a 12-hour sit-in in the Parliament premises from Thursday midnight to Friday afternoon.
Rahul Gandhi called the nature of MNREGA anti-state.
Rahul Gandhi, who is currently visiting Germany, said in a statement issued on Friday, “Last night the Modi government ended 20 years of MNREGA in a single day. VBji Ramji is not a 'reform' of MNREGA.”
It eliminates rights and demand-based guarantees and turns it into a rationed scheme controlled from Delhi. It is anti-state and anti-village by design. MNREGA gave rural laborers bargaining power.
With real alternatives, exploitation and forced migration decreased. Wages increased, working conditions improved, and rural infrastructure was built and revitalized. The Congress leader said that this is the very strength this government seeks to break.
Opposition to launch nationwide protest against MNREGA law
By restricting work and creating other ways to deny it, Mr. Ram weakens the only means available to the rural poor. We will not allow this government to destroy the last line of defense for the rural poor.
We will stand with workers, panchayats and states to defeat this move and form a nationwide front to ensure that this law is withdrawn. Rahul Gandhi said that we saw the meaning of MNREGA during Covid, when the economy was shut down and livelihoods were destroyed, it saved crores of people from hunger and debt.
He helped women the most. He said that when you ration any employment program, women, Dalits, tribals, landless laborers, and the poorest OBC communities are the first to be excluded.
TMC MPs stage 12-hour sit-in in Parliament premises
He alleged that the bill was forcibly passed in Parliament without proper scrutiny, rejecting the opposition's demand to refer it to a standing committee. The Leader of the Opposition claimed that PM Modi's goal is to centralize power by weakening the strength of workers and rural India, especially Dalits, OBCs, and tribals, and then selling slogans as "reforms."
Meanwhile, after the Ramji Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha at 12 midnight on Thursday, Trinamool Congress MPs, holding pictures of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, staged a sit-in protest at the entrance to the Constitution House, which continued until 12 noon on Friday. TMC MP Sagarika Ghosh accused the Modi government of employing a bulldozer strategy to pass the law.
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