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.