Overview
- Party leaders launched the MGNREGA Bachao Sangram with district press conferences and a schedule that runs through February 25, including fasts, gram panchayat outreach and major rallies.
- Karnataka’s cabinet unanimously rejected the Act, said it will approach the Supreme Court, and announced a two-day special legislature session to seek a resolution urging restoration of MGNREGA.
- The BJP and JD(S) welcomed the special session and defended the law as expanding guaranteed work to 125 days, integrating livelihood programs, tightening oversight and allowing flexibility during farm seasons.
- State-level actions gathered pace as Punjab Congress held a large rally, Telangana planned gram sabha resolutions and district meetings, and Congress units in Bihar, Meghalaya and Uttarakhand announced phased protests.
- The VB-G RAM G Act cleared Parliament in December and received presidential assent, shifting funding to a 60:40 Centre–state pattern and centralising allocations, changes critics say weaken panchayats and the right-to-work framework.