Indian democracy stands at a perilous junction. The proposed 130th Constitutional Amendment—mandating automatic resignation of the prime minister, a Union minister or a chief minister if detained for 30 days or more—is projected as a cleansing tool for politics, but in reality it risks becoming a constitutional kill-switch, a device to topple elected governments not by votes but through custody orders. Attractive slogans of morality conceal a lethal design. Advocates may claim it will weed out corruption, but it effectively shifts the power of regime change from voters to investigators, prosecutors and magistrates. Thirty days of detention—genuine or politically engineered—could overturn the mandate of millions. That is not constitutional morality but political engineering dressed up as re

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