‘Difficult to find a problem’: Shashi Tharoor on bills to remove PM, CMs

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said he had not examined in detail the bills for removal of Prime Minister, Chief Ministers facing serious criminal charges.

“I haven’t studied the bill carefully enough. On the face of it, it’s difficult to find a problem, obviously, if someone has done something wrong, they should not remain a minister. However, I don’t know if there’s any other motive behind the bill, since I haven’t examined it in detail," he told ANI.

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday introduced in the Lok Sabha contentious bills that propose that a sitting minister, chief minister or even the prime minister can lose their position within a month if they are arrested or detained for 30 days straight over an offence that carries a jail term of five years or more.

This led to a massive showdown by the opposition. Opposition MPs, including Asasduddin Owaisi, Manish Tewari, NK Premchandran, Dharmendra Yadav and KC Venugopal, opposed the bill, calling it “anti-constitutional".

Shah, however, proposed that the three bills be sent to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for further deliberation.

Additionally, Congress MP KC Venugopal asked Shah whether he resigned on moral grounds when he was the home minister of Gujarat.

“BJP people are saying this is to bring morality in politics. Can ask a question to the home minister when he was the home minister of Gujarat, he had been arrested, whether he took the morality to resign," the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Alappuzha said.

Shah objected strongly to Venugopal and said he resigned as the Gujarat home minister on moral grounds and did not take any constitutional post until he was cleared of all charges by the courts.

“False allegations were levelled against me, and I resigned on moral grounds, and I did not take any constitutional posts until I was cleared of all charges by the courts," Shah said.