Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday defended three new bills, citing former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, which aims to remove any Prime Minister, Chief Minister or Minister from the post for 30 consecutive days. Referring to Kejriwal being in power despite being detained, Shah questioned whether the constitution should be amended to deal with such situations.
The Union Minister’s office wrote in a post on X, “Recently an incident happened, the Chief Minister of Delhi was running the government despite being lodged in jail. So should the constitution be amended or not?”
Kejriwal was arrested in March last year after ignoring nine summons of Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged Delhi liquor scam. He became the first Chief Minister to be arrested while holding office in Indian history.
Shah insisted that the proposed bill is not targeted on any one party. He said, “It is the responsibility of both the ruling and the opposition to maintain the norms of morality in democracy. This bill is not for any one party. It will apply to the Chief Ministers of the BJP as well as the Prime Minister.”
The Home Minister also questioned whether it is acceptable to run the government from jail?
Does the people of the country want any Prime Minister, Chief Minister or Minister to run the government by staying in jail? When the constitution was created, it was not even imagined that such shameless people would refuse to resign even after going to jail. That is why no such provision was placed in the constitution. “
Three Bills – Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025; Union Territory Government (Amendment) Bill, 2025; And the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill, 2025 – was introduced in Parliament earlier this week.
He proposes that any Prime Minister, Chief Minister or Minister, who is arrested for a crime of at least five years and detained for 30 days, will be removed from his own post on his own 31st day. The President or Governor, according to his jurisdiction, will have the right to dismiss them.