Kolkata/IBNS, Aug. 20 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has lashed out at the Modi government for presenting the bill that will allow the removal of Prime Minister or a Chief Minister or any central or state minister if arrested on a criminal charge for 30 days.

In a long post on X, Mamata ripped apart the Modi government and called the move as a "step towards something that is more than a super-Emergency".

"This Bill now wants to finish the Independence of our Judiciary. What we are witnessing is unprecedented-- the Bill is nothing short of a Hitlerian assault on the very soul of Indian democracy. The Bill seeks to strip the judiciary of its Constitutional role- to take away the power of Courts to adjudicate on matters that...