SDPI Condemns ‘Disturbed Areas’ Bill | An Assault on the Constitution

The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) unequivocally condemns the Rajasthan government’s clearance of the so-called ‘Disturbed Areas’ Bill, terming it a communal and authoritarian move pushed by the BJP under the political direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and executed by the government led by Bhajan Lal Sharma.

By allowing authorities to brand localities as “disturbed” on vague and subjective grounds like demographic imbalance, the bill institutionalises suspicion, profiling, and segregation. It grants sweeping discretionary powers, restricts property transactions, and criminalises citizens with non-bailable offences, amounting to collective punishment rather than justice.

Such legislation undermines the spirit of the Constitution, erodes equality, dignity, freedom, and property rights, and threatens social cohesion. Experiences from similar laws elsewhere show they damage livelihoods, freeze local economies, trap residents in ghettos, and deepen communal fault lines, without ensuring peace.

SDPI demands the immediate withdrawal of this discriminatory bill and calls upon all democratic forces to stand united in defence of constitutional values, secularism, and civil liberties.

Mohammad Shafi
National Vice President