The essence of Good Governance is linked to politics and powerplay.
By that logic all governance projects and schemes should actually ensure that the fruits of development reach ‘Daridra-narayan’ - the faceless common and poor Indian – as believed by RSS ideologues.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the controversial 130th Constitution Amendment Bill that seeks to remove ministers detained for serious offences for 30 consecutive days is expected to adopt its report on July 17.
A House panel adopting a report is a routine procedure before the Bill is tabled in Parliament. The report is likely to retain the contentious clause that proposes
.... the automatic removal of the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers, or other ministers from office if they are arrested and detained in custody for 30 consecutive days for serious offences.
But there could be notes of caution to ensure that the law is not misused for political vendetta, sources said.
The Bill will be taken up in the Monsoon Session of Parliament, likely to begin on July 20, for consideration and passage, sources said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Bill in August last year, and a 31-member parliamentary panel chaired by BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi was formed to examine it.
The RSS-BJP model of Good Governance is also assertion of Hindutva powerplay and hence an organic chemistry between various governmental wings and the RSS-backed organisations and the Sanghpaivar fountainhead is minimum expectation.
However, the panel’s members – be it from the ruling coalition, the opposition and neutral parties – are convinced that the draft Bill should add provisions to avoid misuse of the law, sources said.
This suggestion will be part of the recommendations, they added. The committee is also expected to recommend curbs or a threshold regarding the nature of the crime for provisions of the proposed law to apply.
Opposition MPs on the parliamentary panel are likely to give a dissent note on the report.
While the BJP and its allies in the NDA dominate the panel, it also has AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi and NCP (SP)’s Supriya Sule as members.
YSRCP’s S Niranjan Reddy, a Rajya Sabha MP, is also part of the 31-member committee.
The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, provides for the removal of a minister if he/she is accused of an offence punishable with five or more years of imprisonment, and has been arrested and detained for 30 consecutive days.
The removal, according to the proposed Bill, can be directed by the President or Governor upon the advice of the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister, respectively, or automatically on the 31st day of detention.
How Politics affected Babudom !!
It is considered so common among communists. An IAS officer in the erstwhile West Bengal (under Basu days) would always feel proud to have ties with JNU in Delhi or the Jadavpur University connections in Kolkata.
The same ‘nexus’ flourished during their days in office.
During Jyoti Basu regime, often senior most IAS officers missed the coveted Chief Secretary’s post over very ordinary or inane issues. In the late 1960s, it is said, so much was the animosity that prominent CPI-M Minister Hare Krishna Konar (during United Front coalition regime with Bangla Congress), had described Bengal’s bureaucrats as “gutter vermin”.
In 2016, Mamata Banerjee said - "Your career begins in the state and will end here".
Hence under Modi and RSS hegemony; it may not be entirely erroneous to say – the careers of IAS and IPS lobbies will end with ‘Nagpur’ liking or disliking.
The parliamentary panel's report is likely to retain the most contentious clause proposing the automatic removal of Prime Minister, Chief Ministers or other ministers from office if they are arrested and detained for 30 consecutive days for serious offences.
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