Tempers flare as HM Amit Shah introduces three Bills for elimination of Ministers dealing with severe legal expenses

The Lok Sabha witnessed a face-off and sharp exchanges between Congress member Okay.C. Venugopal and Home Minister Amit Shah through the introduction of a Constitutional Amendment Bill on Wednesday (August 20, 2025).

Mr. Shah had moved three Bills that permit the elimination of elected representatives, together with the Prime Minister and Chief Minister, upon being arrested or detained on severe legal expenses.

Opposing the Bills, Mr. Venugopal questioned the BJP’s declare that the Bills had been introduced in to make sure morality and identified that Mr, Shah too had been arrested when he was Gujarat Home Minister.

“I used to be framed in fabricated circumstances, however I resigned earlier than I used to be arrested,” Mr. Shah replied.

Earlier, a number of Opposition members, together with Congress’s Manish Tewari and the Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav, had opposed the invoice.

What are the Bills about?

The Bills say that the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers, Ministers of States and Union Territories who’re arrested and detained in custody for 30 consecutive days on allegation of committing an offence punishable with imprisonment for 5 years or extra, shall be faraway from workplace by the thirty first day by the President, Chief Minister (in case of State Ministers), Governor (for Chief Ministers) and Lieutenant-Governor (for Chief Minister in Union Territories).

The Bills say that they could possibly be subsequently reappointed on launch from custody.

The assertion of objects and causes of the Bill despatched by Mr. Shah, circulated amongst Lok Sabha members on Tuesday, mentioned, “the elected representatives symbolize hopes and aspirations of the folks of India. It is anticipated that they rise above political pursuits and act solely within the public curiosity and for the welfare of individuals. It is anticipated that the character and conduct of Ministers holding the workplace ought to be past any ray of suspicion.”

It mentioned {that a} Minister, who’s dealing with allegation of significant legal offences, arrested and detained in custody, could thwart or hinder the canons of constitutional morality and ideas of fine governance and ultimately diminish the constitutional belief reposed by folks in him.