Likewise flaying the Narendra Modi government for this Bill, CPI(M) general secretary M.A. Baby said, “The Modi government’s three bills to oust PM, CMs, ministers after 30 days in custody exposes its neo-fascist characteristics. This direct assault on our democracy will be opposed by CPI(M) tooth and nail. We urge all democratic forces to unite against this draconian move.”

“These bills, cloaked as tackling crime in high office, reveal their true intent, given the RSS-controlled Modi govt’s history of undermining elected state governments,” he added. 

CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya agreed that all three bills together will sound the “death knell” for federalism.   

“Viewed together with the ongoing systematic subversion of the electoral system starting with the appointment of election commissioners to the relentless push for the ‘one nation, one election (ONOE)’ system, this amendment will sound the death knell for federalism and parliamentary democracy in India,” Bhattacharya said.

“Every state government opposed to the BJP’s politics and policies will henceforth be rendered permanently destabilised and dysfunctional. Every NDA ally will be on tenterhooks to fall in line with the BJP,” his statement continued. 

“The weaponisation of central agencies like ED, CBI, I-T, NIA and the abuse of the Constitutional office of governors in narrow partisan interest, a trend which has been seriously condemned on several occasions even by the Supreme Court, will now gain legal validity with the enactment of this bill,” he added.