Amit Shah Introduces Controversial Minister Removal Bills Amid Opposition Uproar in Lok Sabha

Amid massive ruckus by the Opposition members, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today introduced three Bills -- The Constitution (One Hundred & Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha.

The three bills were referred to the Joint Committee of the Parliament.

The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, seeks to remove a Central or State Minister who is facing allegations of corruption or serious offences and has been detained for at least 30 days while holding office.

Shah said the Bills will be referred to a Joint Committee of the Houses consisting of 21 Members of this House to be nominated by the Lok Sabha Speaker and 10 Members of Rajya Sabha to be nominated by the Deputy Chairman.

The Committee shall make a report and submit to this House by the last day of the first week of the next session (winter session), the Home Minister said.

Amid loud protests and sloganeering by the Opposition members against the 130th Amendment bill, Speaker Om Birla said, "You can protest but your way of protesting is not right. Change your method of protest."

When the House reconvened at 3 pm, marshals were seen in the House, following the unruly behaviour of the Opposition MPs. The Speaker then adjourned the House till 5 pm.

The Speaker called the Home Minister to move the three Bills. As he tabled the Bills, the Opposition started creating a ruckus.

Congress member Manish Tiwari while opposing the bill said, "The bill is squarely destructive of the basic structure of the Constitution. This bill makes an investigating officer the boss of the Prime Minister of India."

"This bill opens the door for political misuse by instrumentalities of the state, whose arbitrary conduct has been repeatedly frowned upon by the Supreme Court," he added.

He further said that the bill distorts Parliamentary democracy, which is part of the basic structure, by displacing the will of the people through mere custody bereft of a judicial determination.

He demanded the Bills be withdrawn.

Moreover, AIMIM member Asaduddin Owaisi while opposing the bills said that it violates the principle of separation of powers and weakens the right to choose a government.

He said, "It gives executive agencies a free hand to become judge and executioner on the basis of trivial allegations and suspicions. This government is bent on turning the country into a police state."

"This will be the last nail in the coffin for an elected government. The Constitution of India is being amended to transform this country into a police state," he added.

Opposing the bill, NK Premachandran of the Revolutionary Socialist Party asked the government, "What was the need to bring the Bill in a haste?"

He also accused the government of not circulating the bill to the members.

Another Congress member who opposed the bill was KC Venugopal.

"BJP leaders claim that this bill aims to bring morality into politics, but I would like to ask the Home Minister of India: when he was the Home Minister of Gujarat and faced arrest, did he consider taking moral responsibility and resigning?

This bill is meant to target the "Opposition-ruled governments", he claimed.

Countering Venugopal, Amit Shah said that when he was Gujarat minister he had resigned on moral grounds before his arrest and joined the government only after being discharged by the court.

He said, "We cannot be so shameless that we continue to occupy constitutional positions while facing serious charges."

To show his opposition, Venugopal tore the bills and threw it. Other opposition members too tore up the bill to showcase their protest.

The protesting opposition members then approached very close to the Treasury Benches and near the Home Minister. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju then came in front of Amit Shah's seat and tried to stop the agitating members. But the Opposition members continued to throw bits of paper at the Chair and the Treasury Benches.