The Government on Wednesday rejected the Opposition’s charge that it was pushing bills through in the Rajya Sabha without proper scrutiny, saying in the last two years of the NDA-I, several bills were referred to parliamentary standing committees.
Responding to questions from reporters, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that since this is the first session of the recently-constituted 17th Lok Sabha, standing committees have not been formed as parties are yet to send names of their members.
“This has happened in the past too,” he said. “Half the bills brought were those which had lapsed due to dissolution of (16th) Lok Sabha. These were pending in the Rajya Sabha. People did not get justice,” he said, attacking the opposition for blocking the bills in Rajya Sabha. On allegation of Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad that government passed bills in Rajya Sabha through deception, he
Said: “Who deceived them, they have to see.”