On August 20, 2025, the Indian Government introduced three constitutional amendment bills1) of massive implications in the Parliament (read Bill 1, Bill 2, and Bill 3 here). Together, the bills aim to replace the parliamentary tradition that the executive ministers are accountable solely to the House and establish a mandatory legal sanction providing that any minister – including the Prime Minister at the Union level and Chief Ministers at the State Governments – can be removed from their ministerial office if arrested or detained for thirty consecutive days on charges carrying a potential sentence of five years or more, regardless of whether they retain the House’s confidence. At first glance, the bills may seem laudatory, founded on the expectation of ethical standards for high constitutional office. Yet, one can clearly anticipate the gross impending misuse of this law towards establishing a hegemonic BJP rule in India, with the opposition governments regularly destabilized and targeted. These bills represent another instance of the Modi government’s use of perfectly legal and constitutional actions to advance authoritarian governance.