G RAM G Bill triggers political storm
Millennium Post Delhi
|Delhi 16 December 2025
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said, “Whenever ‘the name of a scheme is changed, there are so many changes that have to be made in offices, stationery... for which money is spent.
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So, what is the benefit? Why is it being done?” “Why is Mahatma Gandhi's name being removed. Mahatma Gandhi is considered the tallest leader not just in the country but in the world; so, removing his name, I really don't understand what the objective is. What is their intention?” she told reporters in the Parliament House complex.
“Even when we are debating, it is on other issues and not the real issues of the people. Time is being wasted, money is being wasted, they are disrupting themselves? the MP from Kerala's Wayanad added.
Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien termed the governments move “an insult to Mahatma Gandhi? “But then, are you surprised! ‘These are the same people who hero-worshipped the man who killed Mahatma Gandhi. They want to insult Mahatma Gandhi and remove him from history” he said.
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