Modi Regime Uses Winter Session of Parliament for Intensifying Heinous Corporate-Fascist Restructuring!
The Winter Session of Parliament that formally began on 1 December 2025, shortly after RSS-BJP’s sweeping victory in Bihar and implementation of Labour Codes, is now witnessing a series of Bills which are in tune with the inherent far-right and pro-corporate, and hence anti-people essence of the Modi regime. Among the 13 key Bills on the agenda of this Session, the most retrogressive are: the SHANTI Bill aimed at incentivising private-corporate sector participation, both Indian and foreign, in nulear plants, the VB-G RAM G Bill that restructures and dismantles MGNREGA, the VBSA Bill that demolishes the UGC, and the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha Bill seeking to raise FDI limit in Insurance from 74% to 100%, thereby selling out the entire insurance sector to most corrupt global financial speculators.
Take , for instance, the case of the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025. This Bill introduced into Lok Sabha on 15 December is in accordance with the mission launched in 2025-26 Budget with an outlay of ₹20000 crore to develop “small modular reactors” as part of scaling up nuclear power to 100 Giga Watt by 2047 from the current 8.8 GW. Under pressure from the imperialist master US, through SHANTI Bill, when Modi regime is set to lay red carpet for nuclear reactors to India, most of the G7 countries are either closing down their nuclear plants, or are dumping obselete and harmful nuclear technology on Afro-Asian-Latin American countries. As of now, no solutions are there for overcoming or even reducing the harmful effects of nuclear power plants, related to radioactive release through accidents and disastes, radioactive waste management, environmental impact of thermal pollution and challenges of radioactive waste management. However, through the proposed SHANTI Bill, Modi government is absolving foreign corporate nuclear companies, especially that of US, from all liabilities. With this perspective, the SHANTI Bill is going to replace the 1962 Atomic Energy Act and 2010 Civil Liability and Nuclear Damage Act. To be precise, the SHANTI Bill amply reveals the anti-national essence of the much trumpeted ‘cultural nationalism’ of RSS.
In the same vein, the replacing of MGNREGA with Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB – G RAM G) Bill and shift from rights-based employment guarantee to market-led system and that reduces Union government’s fund share from 90% to 60%, thereby raising the financial burden on States whose federal rights over taxation was already taken away by GST, is intended to demolish the the Employment Guarantee Scheme itself. Since 2014, there has been a secular deterioration in the budgetary allocation to MGNREGA, which is being made a farce now through its Hindi-Sanskrit nomenclature VB-G RAM G. With more than half of world’s extreme poor being in India and its rank in the latest Global Hunger Index being 102 out of 123 countries, Modi government’s move to frame the Bill as a law to establish a “rural development framework aligned with the national vision of Viksit Bharat @ 2047” is both a mockery and a shameless rhetoric.
A typical corporate-saffron legislative move is the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill that claims to overhaul the entire regulatory framework in higher education. Though the Bill is forwarded to a Joint Parliamentary Committee, its declared objective is to constitute a Higher Education Commission which is to replace the University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education and the National Council for Teacher Education. This initiative is part of implementing the NEP adopted without even a namesake discussion in parliament in 2020 when Covid pandemic was at its zenith. The proposed VBSA Bill, which is against the multilingual, multicultural and federal character of India, aims at saffronisation, corporatisation and commercialisation of the whole education structure in India. If the Bill becomes law, on the one hand, all public-funded higher education in India will be dismantled, and on the other, education will be transformed as an ideological tool of RSS fascism.
And the Saka Bima Sabki Raksha (i.e., Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, envisaging 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in insurance was also a budgetary proposal. It also aims at amending the 1938 Insurance Act, 1956 Life Insurance Corporation Act and 1999 Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act. Obviously, this move is prompted by Western imperialist powers, especially US. The fraudulent speculative practices by insurance companies played a major role in aggravating the US-centred 2008 global meltdown or financial crisis. Now these insurance companies, motivated by making super-profit within the shortest possible time, and through their interlinkages with financial speculation, are focused on raising premiums, denying claims, creating hurdles and a whole set of unethical practices. Among well-meaning people, even in the west, these insurance companies are oftern called “lepers of the economy”. Now, in the guise of Viksit Bharat, the crony capitalist regime in India is providing unfettered entry to these corporate “lepers” from US, which will have disastrous consequences for the vast majority of working and oppressed people in India.
In brief, underlying these far-right, pro-corporate, Hindutva moves, are the strengthening of both the material and ideological bases of RSS fascism in India. As previous experiences have shown, as per it’s fascist agenda, the Modi government will definitely go for enacting these anti-people and anti-national bills by keeping the parliament as an edific or a show-cause. Hence, while using all available options in parliament, it is high time on the part of all anti-fascist democratic forces, together with all the working and oppressed peoples of India, to rise up in solidarity, and come forward for country-side resistance for defeating these heinous corporate-fascist legislations without any let up.
P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star
New Delhi
16.12.2025
