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The tabling of the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, by the Narendra Modi government in Parliament has triggered one of the sharpest political responses from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), with both West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and the party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee warning that the move was nothing less than an existential threat to Indian democracy and criticism is not limited to procedural objections—it is cast in terms of historical analogies, authoritarian warnings and a broader contest over the balance of power in the Republic. On Facebook, Mamata's statement was nothing short of incendiary. She argued that the bill, if passed, would destroy the very foundations of democratic India. 'I condemn the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill, proposed to be tabled by the Government of India. I condemn it as a step towards something that is more than a super-Emergency, a step to end the democratic era of India forever. This draconian step comes as a death knell for democracy and federalism in India,' Mamata Mamata, the attack was twofold: first, against the Election Commission's (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process for electoral rolls, which she saw as a weapon to suppress voting rights; second, against the stripping of judicial independence. 'This is not reform. This is regression—towards a system where the law no longer rests with independent courts but is placed in the hands of vested interests. It is a chilling attempt to establish a rule where judicial scrutiny is silenced, Constitutional safeguards are dismantled and the people's rights are trampled. This is how authoritarian regimes, even fascist ones in history, consolidated power,' read her placed the bill in a lineage of authoritarianism, describing it as 'a Hitlerian assault on the very soul of Indian democracy'. The attack on courts, she warned, was in fact an attack on citizens: 'To weaken the courts is to weaken the people. To deny them the right to seek justice is to deny them democracy itself.' Her conclusion was unambiguous: 'The bill must be resisted at any cost! Democracy must be saved at this moment!'Abhishek, the TMC's parliamentary party leader in the Lok Sabha, amplified the charge from a different angle. Speaking at a news conference in Kolkata, he accused the BJP of using brute force to silence dissent, even alleging that the TMC's women MPs were assaulted and heckled inside the House. 'We condemn this incident. We will take it up sternly. The BJP is perplexed and bewildered. They thought they would run the country like their own private or paternal property. We have shown them their place.'Abhishek also ridiculed the optics of Union home minister Amit Shah needing heavy marshal protection. 'The home minister, who boasts of a 56-inch-chest government, had to sit in the fourth row of the Lok Sabha being guarded by 12-15 marshals. This speaks volumes of the BJP's '56-inch or Vishwaguru' narrative,' he social media, Abhishek sharpened the attack, tying the bill to a broader pattern of authoritarian excesses. He accused the Modi government of preferring control over accountability, power over constitutional responsibility. 'The Union government, despite having the support of the Opposition parties and the entire nation, lacks the courage to reclaim PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). It beats its chest with hollow rhetoric, but when it comes to defending India's sovereignty, protecting our borders and acting firmly against our enemies, it shows no real resolve. Instead of fulfilling its constitutional responsibility, this government is solely interested in amassing power, wealth and control without any accountability.'Abhishek connected the bill to the BJP's failed attempt to use the SIR process, alleging that the Centre had shifted tactics by unleashing enforcement agencies. 'Having failed in its attempt to misuse the EC to implement SIR, the government has now activated another 'E'—ED (Enforcement Directorate)—to bring in laws that target Opposition leaders, crush democracy and manipulate the people's mandate by toppling state governments,' he rhetoric escalated into a moral binary. For Abhishek, the bill was 'anti-people, anti-farmer, anti-poor, anti-SC, anti-ST, anti-OBC, anti-federal and above all anti-India'. He declared that 'One vote to the BJP is nothing less than selling the soul of India'.advertisementAt the press conference, Abhishek added another layer to the critique, attacking not just the bill's contents but its political intention. He described the measures as 'gimmicks' designed to retain power without accountability. While mocking the provisions on removing arrested leaders from office, he turned the proposal against its authors. 'We will be the first to support the bills. In fact, we urge the government to reduce the jail term of ministers from 30 days to 15 days [for their removal]. But the government must add the clause that if the persecuted minister is not proven guilty on the 16th day, then the investigating officers of the agency concerned and its top bosses will have to go to jail for double the time they hold the leader in jail,' he reframing the bill as an accountability test not just for politicians but investigative agencies as well, Abhishek highlighted the TMC's deeper charge: that the BJP uses state machinery selectively to suppress the Opposition while insulating itself from larger political theatre was unmistakable. While the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill introduced by Shah were quickly referred to a joint parliamentary committee, for the TMC, the symbolism mattered more than the legislative detail. By portraying the bills as an authoritarian leap—akin to 'super-Emergency' politics—Mamata and Abhishek positioned the debate not just as a constitutional tussle but as a struggle for the soul of India's effect, the TMC's line is that the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill is not an isolated piece of legislation but the culmination of a pattern: centralisation of power, weaponisation of institutions like the EC and ED, silencing of the judiciary, and intrusion into state autonomy. The warnings are grave—'a death warrant for constitutional governance' in Mamata's words, and 'selling the soul of India' in Abhishek' the bills will eventually pass, given the BJP's lack of a two-thirds majority in the Houses, is uncertain. But what is clear is that the political battle over them has already become a referendum on the future of India's federal to India Today Magazine- Ends
