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"If Arvind Kejriwal Had Resigned...": Amit Shah On Bills To Sack Jailed Ministers
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah defended the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill, stating it is necessary to uphold political morality after Arvind Kejriwal remained in office from prison before losing recent elections.
- Shah highlighted that no other Chief Minister had continued to govern while jailed, marking a first for Delhi.
- He emphasized that the amendment would apply equally to leaders of all parties and urged the opposition to engage responsibly in discussions.
- Amit Shah argued that allowing a government to function from prison would harm the integrity of democracy, asking if they wanted leaders to govern from jail.
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'Amendment needed after Delhi CM continued to govern from jail', says Amit Shah
Kochi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday defended the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill, saying it was needed to “uphold political morality” after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal continued to hold office from prison before losing power in recent assembly elections. “In the past 75 years, many Chief Ministers and Ministers have gone to jail, and all of them resigned. But for the first time in Delhi, a chief minister was running a gov…
"If Arvind Kejriwal Had Resigned...": Amit Shah On Bills To Sack Jailed Ministers
Amit Shah maintained that it had not happened in the 75 years since the nation won freedom. He then cited the example of Arvind Kejriwal, the former Delhi Chief Minister who ran the government from Tihar jail, to drive home the point of bringing in the bills to sack jailed ministers. Mr Shah also underlined the need for "constitutional morality", something he said should be practised by both the opposition and the ruling party.
‘Recipe to Harm Constitution’, Kapil Sibal on Bills to Oust Arrested PM, CMs - Clarion India
NEW DELHI — Calling it a recipe for ‘insidious decay’ of the Constitution, former Law Minister and Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal on Thursday deprecated the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, aimed at checking tainted heads of governments from running their administrations from jail. “If they manage to muster majority support for the bill, then the government will succeed in its draconian objective,” Sibal told IANS. They should refrain …
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