New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, hours after presenting three key bills in Lok Sabha, said that the purpose behind introducing these legislations was to “elevate the declining level of morality in public life and bring integrity to politics.”
Taking to his social media handle, the Union Minister elucidated the central aspects of the bill and stated how this will set new benchmarks of probity and integrity in public life, as it applies to even the highest constitutional posts of the country, including the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers.
The bill, which was sent to the Joint Committee of Parliament for scrutiny, has provisions for ousting the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers if they have been arrested for 30 consecutive days.
Amit Shah, in his X post, informed that he introduced a constitutional amendment bill in the Parliament, which ensures that those on constitutional posts like the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, and ministers of the central and state governments cannot run the government while in jail. The law that will come into existence through these three bills will imply:
“No person, while arrested and in jail, can govern as Prime Minister, Chief Minister, or a minister of the central or state government. This bill includes a provision that allows an accused politician to seek bail from the court within 30 days of arrest. If they fail to obtain bail within 30 days, on the 31st day, either the Prime Minister at the Centre or the Chief Ministers in the states will remove them from their posts, or they will automatically become legally ineligible to perform their duties,” he highlighted.
Amit Shah further said that when the Constitution was framed, the makers of the Constitution didn’t imagine a situation where there could be political figures who would not resign on moral grounds before being arrested, a remark intended at AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, who refused to give up the chair despite being months in jail over corruption charges.
'Undermines democracy': MK StalinChennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Central government over the introduction of the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, warning that the legislation, if passed, would undermine democracy and empower the Centre to arbitrarily unseat opposition Chief Ministers. In a post on X, Stalin accused the BJP government of attempting to “defile” the Constitution and described the proposed amendment as a “Black Day” in Indian democracy. “The 130th Constitutional Amendment is not reform. This is a Black Day and this is a Black Bill. Thirty-day arrest equals removal of an elected CM. No trial, no conviction – just BJP’s diktat. This is how dictatorships begin: Steal votes, silence rivals and crush states,” he wrote. The Chief Minister alleged that the move was a diversionary tactic by the BJP, which is facing allegations of “vote theft.” He claimed that after being accused of forming the government through fraudulent means, the party is desperate to divert public attention. |
