AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has strongly opposed three new bills tabled by the Union Home Ministry in the Lok Sabha, arguing they violate core constitutional principles and pose a serious threat to the federal structure of the country.
The bills include the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025, the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025. Owaisi, currently the only AIMIM MP in Parliament, submitted a notice under Rule 72 of the Rules of Procedure, seeking to block their introduction.
Raising several concerns, Owaisi said the proposed legislation would allow the removal of ministers, including Chief Ministers and the Prime Minister, based solely on detention without trial. He argued that this violates the principle of separation of powers by enabling executive agencies to assume judicial roles.
According to Owaisi, these provisions could severely undermine democratic governance by shifting accountability away from elected representatives. He warned that allowing automatic removal of ministers on unproven allegations would make them answerable not to the legislature or the public but to the Union-controlled executive machinery.
He also cautioned that such laws could lead to administrative dysfunction. The fear of arbitrary detention, he said, may prevent ministers and chief ministers from carrying out their constitutional duties. This in turn could embolden the bureaucracy to ignore legitimate directives, creating a state of paralysis within the administration.
Owaisi further argued that the bills infringe on constitutional protections such as the safeguard against double punishment. He pointed to Article 20 of the Constitution and explained that a minister could be penalised twice, first through removal based on mere detention and again upon conviction.
With regard to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Owaisi said the proposal weakens federalism, which he described as a fundamental part of the Constitution’s basic structure.
In a broader critique, he said the new legislation dilutes judicial safeguards, undermines parliamentary democracy, and hands greater power to unelected officials at the cost of elected leaders.
