West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday targeted the Center to bring the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill and said that it is a step towards the Super-Fatal and will end India’s democratic era forever. Using his X handle, Banerjee said that I condemn the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill to be introduced by the Government of India today. I condemn it as a step that is more than the super-emergency, it is an end to India’s democratic era forever. This drastic step is a bell of death for democracy and federalism in India.
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Mamta described the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Election Commission as another very rigorous step taken by the Center to suppress the franchise of Indian citizens. Banerjee claimed that the bill would take away the power of the judiciary and weaken its constitutional role. He said that this bill now wants to end the freedom of our judiciary. What we are seeing is unprecedented – this bill is nothing short of a Hitler attack on the soul of Indian democracy. The bill tries to take away the constitutional role of the judiciary – to take away the power of the courts of decision making on cases located at the core of justice and federal balance. By handing over such powers in partisan hands, this bill distorts democracy.
This strict response to the Chief Minister of West Bengal came after the introduction of the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The bill provides for the removal of a Union or Minister of State, who is facing allegations of corruption or serious crimes and detained for at least 30 days or more, even if he has not been found guilty, but he was kept in custody for a crime of jail sentenced to five years or more.
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Intensifying its attack on the BJP government at the Center, Chief Minister Banerjee said, “This is not reform. It is regression – towards a system where the law is no longer with independent courts, but in the hands of vested interests. Also, we have been strengthening power. It smells the same mentality that the world condemned in the most dark chapters of the 20th century. “