Slamming the government, Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said the government is lying by stating that there never has been any discussion when Bills have been repealed. “There are 17 Bills where discussions took place before repealing of laws. We want to place the continued demands of farmers before the government through these discussions, but the government doesn’t want any discussion,” asserted Kharge.The latest instance of when there was a discussion before repealing of Bills was in 2017 for the National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Bill, 2017, and ‘The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-third Amendment Bill) Bill, 2017. This was during the first term of the Narendra Modi government and this Amendment Bill was to repeal the National Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993, as passed by the Lok Sabha on April 10, 2017. The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on April 5, 2017.The Bill was then passed by the Rajya Sabha with an Amendment (without clause-3) during its sitting on August 6, 2018. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill with alternate and further amendments on August 9, 2018.
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