Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday condemned the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill seeking to remove an elected Chief Minister if arrested for 30 days and said that it was akin to defiling the Constitution and its democratic foundations.
Urging all democratic forces to unite against “this attempt to turn India into a dictatorship, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said in a strongly worded statement, posted on social media handle X, “30-day arrest – Removal of an elected CM. No trial, no conviction — just BJP’s DIKTAT.”
And he further added in his social media post, “This is how DICTATORSHIPS begin: Steal votes, Silence rivals and Crush States. “
“The Union BJP Government has decided to defile the Constitution and its democratic foundations by turning India into a dictatorship under the Prime Minister,” Stalin said and added, after the expose of VoteTheft, the very mandate on which the Union BJP Government was formed is in serious question. Its legitimacy is doubtful. Having stolen the mandate of the people through fraud, the BJP is now desperate to distract public attention from this exposé. To do that, they have brought in the #130thConstitutionalAmendmentBill,” Stalin said.
Explaining his apprehensions, Stalin said the plan of this Bill is clear. “It allows the BJP to foist false cases against political opponents in power across States and remove them by misusing provisions that treat even a 30-day arrest as a ground for removal of an elected leader, without any conviction or trial. This unconstitutional amendment will certainly be struck down by the courts because guilt is decided only after trial, not by the mere registration of a case,” the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said.
“This is a sinister attempt to intimidate regional parties in the NDA, whose leaders are CMs or Ministers in various States — “stick with us or else…,” Stalin said and cautioned the nation that it could get into a dictatorship.
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