Secunderabad, Dec. 20 -- The Telangana Congress party on Saturday staged a protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi Statue on M.G. Road, Secunderabad, condemning the VB-G RAM G Bill 2025, which Parliament recently passed.

The Opposition has been protesting against the VB-G RAM G Bill primarily because it repeals the MGNREGA and removes Mahatma Gandhi's name from the flagship rural employment program. The opposition alleges that the bill weakens the legal "right to work" and imposes a heavy financial burden on states through a new 60:40 funding split.

Meanwhile, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh slammed the government's hasty passage of the bill amid uproar in both Houses of Parliament.

He contrasted the bill's introduction, detail...