Referring the constitutional amendment bills aimed at removing persons from office if they are jailed for any offence for more than 30 days, Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (August 20, 2025) said these legislation take one back to “the medieval times when the king could just remove anybody at his will.”
Mr. Gandhi was speaking at the felicitation programme for the Opposition’s joint candidate for the Vice-Presidential polls, Justice (retired) B. Sudershan Reddy. “We are going back to the medieval times when the king could just remove anybody at his will,” Mr. Gandhi said. There was no concept of what an elected person was, he said, adding, “If he doesn’t like your face, he tells ED [Enforcement Directorate] to put a case, and then a democratically elected person is wiped out within 30 days… this is new.”
