{"id":863,"date":"2025-10-09T19:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=863"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:44:44","slug":"blitz-over-private-member-bills-in-jk-faces-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/09\/blitz-over-private-member-bills-in-jk-faces-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitz over private member bills in J&K faces reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passage remains elusive; only 3 such bills passed in past 45 years<\/strong><\/p>\n

KNO Special Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Oct 09: As political parties in Jammu & Kashmir are blitzing on private member bills submitted by them in the Legislative Assembly, the reality remains that such bills rarely see the light of day.<\/p>\n

A Private Member\u2019s Bill is a legislative proposal introduced by a member of the Legislative Assembly who is not a minister, and belongs to either the treasury benches or the opposition.<\/p>\n

Records available with news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reveal that not a single private member has been passed in Parliament since past 55 years.<\/p>\n

According to details, only 14 private member Bills have ever been passed by the Parliament and received Presidential assent, with the last one becoming law in 1970.<\/p>\n

The fate of private member also remains similar in J&K Assembly.<\/p>\n

Since 1980, only three private member bills have been passed in the House. Two of them- Jammu & Kashmir Resettlement Act-1982 and Jammu & Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 2007- were moved by Abdul Rahim Rather, the incumbent speaker. The first was brought by him as MLA of NC in eighties and second as Leader of Opposition during PDP- Congress rule.<\/p>\n

Former Lok Sabha General Secretary and expert on legislative matters, P.D.T. Achary told the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the normal attitude of the government is that they don\u2019t allow such bills to pass. \u201cIn a few cases, they had allowed it to be passed-long, long ago. That was in the 1950s and 1960s. The passage of a bill depends on the attitude of the government, as it holds a majority in the House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the normal attitude of the government is that they advise the members to withdraw the bills. \u201cNormally, the government doesn\u2019t allow it. The point is that if an opposition member moves a bill and the government allows it to become a law, the member gets all the credit for that, not the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the government normally advises the members to withdraw the bill so that the government can bring a comprehensive bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cA private member\u2019s bill may not be very comprehensive; there may be very skeletal provisions in it. The private member doesn\u2019t have the technical expertise to draft a very comprehensive bill. It can be done only by the government. That advice is okay, and the government is right in giving it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Veteran politician and MLA from Bandipora, Nizamuddin Bhat, said the government always likes laws to be passed through them. \u201cIf a private member\u2019s bill is in the public interest and suits their interests, they can allow its passage,\u201d he said. He said such bills have been rarely passed in the House. \u201cA private member is an individual member. He cannot carry the entire House with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The bigger question is whether the bills submitted for the session starting on October 23 will be introduced in the House.<\/p>\n

Officials well-versed with the legislative process told news agency\u2014KNO that the chances of their introduction on October 28-the day reserved for Private Member Bills-are almost impossible given that 33 bills from the budget session are already pending with the Assembly Secretariat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Private Member Bills would be listed in business in the order in which the notices were received. Since 33 private member bills are pending, they will get preference in the list of business for that day in accordance with the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in J&K Legislative Assembly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that all the bills submitted for during the last budget session, as well as those submitted for the upcoming session, will be listed in the business of the House on that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven past functioning of the House, only 10 to 12 bills are likely to be taken up for introduction in the House,\u201d he said, adding that the bills which are not taken up will remain active.<\/p>\n

He further said that the bills do not lapse with the prorogation of the House; they lapse only upon its dissolution. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passage remains elusive; only 3 such bills passed in past 45 years KNO Special Correspondent Srinagar, Oct 09: As political parties in Jammu & Kashmir are blitzing on private member bills submitted by them in the Legislative Assembly, the reality remains that such bills rarely see the light of day. A Private Member\u2019s Bill is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}