Bills hint at India going back to medieval times: Rahul

LEADER OF OPPOSITION in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday weighed in on the new bills proposing to remove a sitting Prime Minister, chief ministers and ministers in states and UTs, and said the move indicates that India was going back to medieval times.

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"We are going back to medieval times when the king could just remove anybody at will. There's no concept of what an elected person is. He doesn't like your face, so he tells ED to put a case, and then a democratically elected _person is wiped out within 30 days," Rahul Gandhi said in an address to the media this evening.

There three bills -- The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, which covers the PM and states, plus Delhi NCT; The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, and The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, propose to remove the people from these key posts if they are arrested for over 30 days on charges that have jail terms of at least five years.