Patna (TIP)- The Opposition is against three contentious bills that bar any minister, chief minister or prime minister from holding office after getting arrested for a serious crime because most of their leaders are in jail or out on bail, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, Aug 22, alleging that the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress were supporting infiltrators in Bihar.
Modi spoke in Bodh Gaya after inaugurating and laying the foundation of different projects worth?12,000 crore. Later in the day, he travelled to Kolkata where he inaugurated three Metro lines and projects worth Rs 1,200 crore and attacked the ruling Trinamool Congress, saying two state ministers refused to resign even after going to jail.
“We have seen a regrettable situation in which people in seats of power have been running governments from jail, signing files from behind bars, tearing to shreds constitutional propriety,” said Modi, in an apparent reference to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal who was arrested in March last year and got bail in September that year.
Saying that there was “no taint of corruption” on his 11-year-old government, the PM drew a contrast with the previous Congress regimes at the Centre and the RJD in the state.
“So, we decided to bring in a law that provides for the dismissal of a corrupt chief minister, or even the PM, if he or she spends 30 days in jail. A lowly clerk, if he is jailed for a short period, is placed under suspension. But when we brought in a stringent law, the RJD, the Congress and the Left were livid. They are angry because they are scared of facing punishment for their own sins,” Modi alleged.
He highlighted the dangers of demographic imbalance due to infiltration in border areas and underlined his Independence Day announcement of a high-powered demography mission to address this national security challenge. He appeared to link the issue of infiltration to the ongoing controversial special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar.
“The increasing population of illegal immigrants in the country is a matter of concern. In the bordering areas of Bihar, demography is rapidly changing. The NDA government has decided not to let illegal immigrants decide the future of our country…To tackle this threat, I have proposed to start a demographic mission,” he said.
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