The Week in Parliament

Amid continued Opposition protests over the passage of the VB-G RAM G Bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die. The Winter Session of Parliament concluded on Friday after 19 days. Taking part in the debate on the VB-G RAM G Bill in the Rajya Sabha, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya described the Bill as unconstitutional. While speaking on the Bill, it reminds me of a poem by Sukumar Ray.

Seedy Business: The Seeds Bill 2025

THE Government of India's Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare's aggressive attempt to reform a sector essential to India's food sovereignty is the Draft Seeds Bill 2025, made available on November 12 for public comment until December 11. The Godi Media has framed the draft bill as a necessary modernisation. The seed industry, represented by bodies like the Federation of Seed Industry of India, has lavished praise, calling it a timely step toward facilitating business and investment.

Rising Inequality and Politics of Resistance

Extreme inequality in terms of income, wealth, gender and regions has become the hallmark of neoliberalism. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires who are the top 0.001 per cent wealthiest of the world possess three times the wealth of half of humanity. Their share has grown over the years. The top 10 per cent of the world earn more than what the bottom 90 percent of the population earns and the poorest 50 per cent earns only 10 per cent of global income.

On Bangladesh

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 20, 2025.

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep concern over the recent developments in Bangladesh. It urges the interim government of Bangladesh to act immediately against attacks on media outlets and minorities, and to protect the rights of the people. The two most revered cultural institutions Chhayanot and Udichi have come under dastardly attack.

Karnataka : Thousands demand Alternative Politics, Policies

"MODI Government, while talking of Vikasit Bharat, is blocking all opportunities for the growth of people. As part of its assault on people’s rights, REGA act has been changed with many amendments. MNREGA name has been changed to VB G RAM G. But this is not just a change in name, but in content also. The changes made have not been to better it. But MNREGA, which was helping rural workers to an extent, has been effectively buried" declared U Vasuki, CPI(M) Politburo member while speaking at a well-attended rally at Bangalore.

Magnificent victory of People Over Corporates in Hanumangarh

The magnificent victory of the 16-month long mass movement against forcibly setting up of an ethanol factory has found a proud place among some of the few successful agitations that took on the ‘double engine’ corporate-communal government head on.

Scrapping MGNREGA is an Assault on Constitution

THE Central Government has used its majority in Parliament to scrap the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The new law that replaces it is a law for outright “adhikar chori” (rights theft). It has changed the very nature of MGNREGA. While it is a direct assault on the rights of the rural working poor, it should be seen in the framework of an attack on the Constitution of India.

Experts send Open Letter to the Government in Support of MGNREGA

The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA or NREGA) is the largest rights-based public employment programme in the world, signed into law in 2005. It faces imminent repeal by the Indian government, which intends to replace it with the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) VB – G RAM G Bill (2025).

2025 - The Year That Was, 2026 - The Year That Will Be

THIS being the year end issue, People’s Democracy greets all our readers for the coming year. For us, reviewing the year gone by is important, as the past gives us the wherewithal to understand the present and step into the future with all our energy and purpose.

Caste and the Court: Judicial Discourse & Unfulfilled Constitutional Promise

The Supreme Court’s Centre for Research and Planning has released an important document — the Report on Judicial Conceptions of Caste (2025) — examining how India’s highest court has historically understood caste. While the report is institutionally framed as a self-reflective exercise, a close reading reveals something far more significant: a decades-long ideological struggle within the judiciary, between the transformative, egalitarian mandate of the Constitution and the deeply embedded worldview of the upper-caste social order.

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