New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah has strongly defended the Narendra Modi government's decision to introduce constitutional amendment bills preventing leaders from holding top offices such as Prime Minister, Chief Minister or Union and State Ministers while in jail. In a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), Shah termed the reforms as a moral corrective against what he described as a decline in ethical standards in Indian politics.

According to Amit Shah, the three bills are aimed at ensuring that people facing arrest or detention cannot continue running governments from behind bars. The proposals include:

Union Home Minister Amit Shah argued that the framers of the Constitution could not have anticipated a future wher...