Jaipur/Bharatpur, Feb. 3 -- Thousands of labourers, activists and political leaders protested across Rajasthan on Monday against the recently enacted Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-GRAM-G Act, 2025, claiming that it was brought in by the government to dilute the earlier Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). In Jaipur, a large sit-in at Shaheed Smarak drew workers, labourers and social activists from across the state, who demanded withdrawal of the VB-GRAM-G Act. Among those present were social activists Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Jaipur city Congress president Sunil Sharma, political leaders Gopal Sharma, Pushpendra Bhardwaj, Archana Sharma and former Chaksu MLA Ved Prakash Solanki. At the workers' mahapanchayat during the protest, a resolution called for cancelling the VB-GRAM-G Act and restoring MGNREGA in its original form. Speakers condemned the Centre's December 2025 decision to scrap MGNREGA and introduce a new law as a historic betrayal of crores of rural workers, robbing them of a hard-won legal right. Roy said the VB-GRAM-G Act goes against the spirit of the Constitution. "MGNREGA had given the rural poor the right to demand work from the state for the first time, while the new law takes away this right and makes employment dependent on the discretion of the central government, weakening democratic rights and promoting centralised control," she said. Dey alleged that the new law does not guarantee employment but instead guarantees insecurity for workers. "Work, wages and schemes have been taken away from gram sabhas and states and handed over to the Centre, making employment no longer a legal right but a decision controlled by the central government," he said. Similar protests unfolded in Bharatpur, where Congress leaders and workers held a sit-in at the district collectorate against MGNREGA changes. Police maintained order, as the state Congress had called for demonstrations at district headquarters statewide. Commenting on the protest, BJP spokesperson Ram Lal Sharma said the amendments and changes brought in with the new Act will strengthen infrastructure and curb corruption. "There's no curtailment in employment, and if work is not given to a worker, they are entitled to allowance. The Congress is trying to misguide people," said Sharma....