The VB-G RAM G Bill, which seeks to replace MGNREGA, deserves outright rejection for multiple reasons. What is being attempted here is not merely a change in nomenclature, but a calculated assault on the very character, philosophy, and soul of an employment guarantee scheme that has sustained India’s rural poor for decades.
The motivations behind this move are glaring:
First, BJP’s ideological mentor has historically harboured deep hostility towards Mahatma Gandhi and everything he stood for.
Second, the honorific ‘Mahatma’ was popularised by Kobiguru Rabindranath Tagore, a towering Bengali icon for whom the BJP has shown nothing but aversion, much like its contempt for Bengal’s cultural and intellectual legacy as a whole.
1.They systematically crippled MGNREGA, a lifeline of the rural economy.
2. They weaponised the scheme, choking funds to states that refused to fall in line, starving the rural poor to settle political scores.
3. And now, having bled the scheme dry, they seek to fundamentally alter and erase it, stripping it of its Gandhian ethos and constitutional promise.
Our Hon’ble MPs are fighting this assault tooth and nail, refusing to let a vindictive regime dismantle a scheme that embodies dignity through work and justice for the poorest. This fight will not fade. It will only intensify in the days ahead
