Congress protested against the "anti-people" G RAM G bill on Tuesday both inside and outside Parliament. Shashi Tharoor, the party's MP and someone the party has accused of being soft on the BJP, mocked the government in the Lok Sabha by bringing up an old Bollywood song, "dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnam na karo."
Rahul Gandhi of the Congress raised the cry of "sansad to sadak" in opposition to the rural employment guarantee law, claiming that PM Narendra Modi intends to attack the stable livelihood of the poor after ruining India's youth's future through widespread unemployment.
According to him, imposing a 40% financial burden on states will undermine the fundamental tenets of the employment guarantee program, which include the right to work, complete central support for wages and three-quarters for material expenditures, and village autonomy over development projects.
Rahul stated that MGNREGA is a live example of Gandhi's concept of "gram swaraj" as a lifeline for crores of rural Indians and that the prime minister has "deep dislike" for the rights of the poor.
"To remove the name of Mahatma Gandhi is to strip the bill of its moral compass and historical legitimacy," Tharoor stated in the Lok Sabha.
