New Delhi : In a stormy session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, triggering fierce protests from opposition MPs who accused the government of insulting the Father of Nation. Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan defended the move, asserting that Mahatma Gandhi’s name was added to NREGA “with an eye on the 2009 elections”.
Initially it was NREGA and Mahatma Gandhi’s name was not included in the bill. Later, when the 2009 general elections came, Bapu came to mind of Congress to get votes. Responding to the eight-hour discussion on the G RAM G Bill, Chouhan asserted that the Modi government was ensuring that the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi were upheld through various initiatives taken by it. The Congress killed ideals of Bapu, NDA ensured Bapu lives through pucca houses built under the PM Awas Yojana, Ujjwala yojana, Swachh Bharat Mission, Ayushman Bharat, Chouhan said.
The senior BJP leader also countered Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi’s criticism that the Modi government renames schemes on a whim, listing several welfare programmes named after Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. Opposition lawmakers stormed the well of the House, shouting slogans against the government over the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name from the rural employment scheme, tearing copies of the bill, and hurling them toward the Speaker’s chair.
Earlier in the day, opposition MPs had staged a protest march inside the Parliament complex demanding the bill’s withdrawal. The G RAM G Bill provides a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment per year to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.
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