In the name of enhanced transparency and regulatory oversight, the proposed legislation fundamentally rewrites the relationship between the Indian state and civil society. The Bill establishes a central, bureaucratically appointed Designated Authority, empowered to take control of an organisation’s foreign funds and physical properties. By linking an administrative decision on an FCRA license directly to the physical confiscation of land and buildings, the Bill creates an environment of extreme instability. To treat these developmental partners with institutional suspicion, and subject their physical assets to executive expropriation, undermines the principles of a constitutional democracy. This Bill must therefore be resisted through every legal and democratic channel available, beginning on the floor of Parliament.