Overview

• Home Minister Amit Shah introduced three measures — the Constitution (130th) Amendment Bill, the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, and the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill — in the Lok Sabha.
• The draft laws say a prime minister, chief minister or minister held for 30 consecutive days on offences punishable by at least five years would lose office on the 31st day, with a path to resume if later granted bail.
• On Shah’s motion, the House referred the bills to a Joint Parliamentary Committee of 21 Lok Sabha0 Rajya Rajya Sabha members, with a report due by the first week of the next session.
• Opposition MPs staged loud protests, entered the well and tore bill copies, arguing the plan undermines presumption of innocence, federalism and separation of powers and could be misused through ED and CBI actions.
• The government framed the initiative as an anti‑corruption and moral‑governance step to stop officials from running administrations from jail, while any constitutional change would still require two‑thirds support in both Houses.