The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 were today introduced in the Lok Sabha. These bills were introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah amidst the opposition’s protest over the Special Intensive Revision exercise in Bihar.
Opposition parties including Congress, AIMIM, and Samajwadi Party opposed the introduction of these bills terming it unconstitutional and anti-federal. Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM said, these bills violate the principle of separation of powers, and right of the people to elect the government. He said this would empower the unelected bureaucracy to play the role of legislature. He said, this undermines the representative Parliamentary democracy, and these amendments would leave the Ministers and Chief Ministers at the mercy of executive agencies. Manish Tewari of Congress also opposed the bills saying that this would give immense power to executive agencies over the legislature. He said this violates Article 21 of the constitution as these bills distort Parliamentary democracy. He appealed to the government to withdraw these three bills. NK Premachandran of RSP questioned why these bills have been brought in haste and what is the urgency to bring such constitutional amendments bills. He alleged that this is a malafide intention to destabilise the opposition ruled States. KC Venugopal of Congress termed these bills as anti-federal saying that these are intended to target the opposition ruled states. Dharmendra Yadav of Samajwadi Party also opposed the introduction of these bills saying that these are unconstitutional, and against the fundamental rights. Later, the House referred the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to a Joint Committee of Parliament for further scrutiny.
