Across the aisle: BJP has used every trick in its bag to pass laws in Rajya Sabha | The Indian Express

Across the aisle: BJP has used every trick in its bag to pass laws in Rajya Sabha | The Indian Express

Written by P Chidambaram |Updated: August 4, 2019 7:12:14 am

P Chidambaram is former Finance minister of India.

Across the aisle: BJP has used every trick in its bag to pass laws in Rajya Sabha

The BJP government’s commitment to federalism can be gauged by the manner in which Bills are passed in the Rajya Sabha. The Lok Sabha is the House of the People while the Rajya Sabha is the Council of States.

As on August 2, the Lok Sabha has passed 28 Bills in this session and the Rajya Sabha has passed 26 Bills.

I used the phrase ‘cooperative federal polity’ in my Budget speech on February 28, 1997. I do not claim that I was the first to use that phrase, but I am happy that ‘cooperative federalism’ has been used repeatedly in Budget speeches and on other occasions.