NEW DELHI: With photographs of Mahatma Gandhi in hand, several opposition MPs on Thursday took out a protest march inside the Parliament House complex against the government’s G RAM G bill and demanded its withdrawal.Behind a huge banner that had ‘Mahatma Gandhi NREGA’ written on it, they marched from the Gandhi statue at Prerna Sthal to Makar Dwar, raising slogans against the government.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, DMK’s K Kanhimozhi, TR Ballu, A Raja, IUML’s ET Mohammed Basheer, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Arvind Sawant and RSP’s N K Premchandran, among others, participated in the protest.”Today Parliament is witnessing murder of democracy. By removing the name of Mahatma Gandhi from NREGA they are trying to kill the democratic values as well as the ideology of the Father of the Nation,” Venugopal told reporters.Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi joined the protesting MPs and participated in the demonstrations at Makar Dwar.The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill to replace the UPA-era MGNREGA is being debated in Parliament.
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