Lop in Lok Sabha and the leader of the congress Rahul Gandhi speaks during the event to introduce the vice presidential presidential candidate B. Sudershan Reddy, in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, in Nový Dilli, August 20, 2025. Photo Credit: PTI
Referring to the proposals of the Act on the Constitutional Amendment aimed at removing persons from the Office, if they are imprisoned for any criminal offense for more than 30 days, the leader of the Congress and the opposition leader at Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (August 20, 2025) said that these legislation would take one back.
Mr. Gandhi spoke on the Felicitation program for the common candidate of the opposition to Vice Presidential Surveys of Public Opinion, Justice (retirement) B. Sudershan Reddy. “We will return to the medieval times, when the king could only remove anyone at his will,” said Mr. Gandhi. There was no concept of what a person is, he said, adding: “If he does not like your face, he will say ED (Directorate for Pravo) to submit a case, and then a democratically elected person is erased within 30 days.”
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On Wednesday (August 20, 2025), the opposition leaders met to discuss their strategy against accounts. According to sources, several leaders at the meeting were proposed that the opposition should not nominate any of its members to the parliament of a mixed committee that would be established to review the legislation. “Any kind of participation will be equal to the legitimization of these accounts,” he relied on the leader. The opposition, however, did not accept the last challenge.
The main minister of Bengal Mamata Baerjee and Minister Tamil Nadu MK Stalin also charged accounts. In a long contribution to X, Mrs. Baerjee said that this legislation focuses on the “completion of the independence of our judiciary”. Accounts are “nothing but a Hitlerian attack on the soul of Indian democracy itself,” she said.
Mrs. Baerjee claimed that the accounts were to “seize” the Union’s government, “interfere with the mandate of people and to pass on extensive powers uninterested to the authorities such as ED and CBI, to interfere with the functioning of elected state governments”. “It is a step towards strengthening the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior in a sinister manner at the expense of the basic principles of our constitution,” said the chairman of the Congress Trinamool.
False cases
DMK chief Mr. Stalin said that “dictators” begin. “Steal Votes, Silence Rivals and Crush States,” He Wrote On X. Condemning the Bills, He Said 30-day ARREST AS A GROUND FOR REMED OF AN ELEDED LEADER, WITHOUN AS CONVICE.
CPI (m) Secretary General Ma Baby on Accounts
The Secretary General of CPI (M) Ma Baby said the accounts revealed the government “unofficistic characteristics” and were “a direct attack on our democracy”. The Indian Communist Party of Rajya Sabha P. Sandosh Kumar said three accounts will be the opening of the “vendetta policy flood”. The Secretary General of the Liberation CPI (ML) Dipankar Bhattachary said that the accounts will sound for federalism to “lethal buttons”. “Every state government against BJP politics and politicians will since then be permanently destabilized and non -functional. Each ally NDA will be on dozens to get in accordance with the BJP,” he said in a statement.
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Published – August 20, 2025 21:00
