Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed strong disapproval over the renaming of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), saying the move "takes out the heart of the entire ...

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the "anti-people" G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor - who the party has accused of being soft on BJP - taking ...

The government on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) introduced the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, which seeks to replace the two-decade-old Mahatma ...

New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday slammed the central government for the proposal to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ...

The Opposition parties have launched a scathing attack on the Central government's proposal to replace the existing rural employment law Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA ...

The Centre’s proposal to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is ‘immoral and unnecessary,’ said senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in the Lok Sabha today. The ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday attacked the government on the proposed replacement of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for ...

Shashi Tharoor opposed the VB-G RAM G Bill in Lok Sabha, criticising the removal of Mahatma Gandhi’s name and invoking a Bollywood lyric to mock the move. He said renaming and restructuring MGNREGA ...

The Congress on Tuesday said it will hold protests across the country on Wednesday against the Centre's rural employment bill VB-G RAM G that seeks to replace MGNREGA, claiming it was a "BJP-RSS ...

The government on Tuesday introduced the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB–G RAM G Bill in the Lok Sabha to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ...

The MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram asserted that the bill is not merely an administrative tweak but an 'assault on the very spirit and philosophical foundation of this crucial programme'.

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took a sharp dig at the BJP-led Centre on Tuesday while opposing the VB-G RAM G Bill in the Lok Sabha, recalling the 1971 hit Bollywood number -- "Dekho o deewano ...