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J&K Assembly Closes Nine-Day Sitting With Five Government Bills Passed

Members highlighted unusually participatory proceedings, with calls for longer sittings to turn debates into action.

Overview

  • Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather adjourned the House sine die on October 31 after what he called unprecedented participation.
  • The government introduced and passed five bills during the autumn session.
  • Private members listed 41 bills but only eight were taken up, with the remainder carried to the next session; two resolutions were debated and one passed.
  • Oversight activity was extensive, with 732 questions submitted (682 admitted), 29 taken up with 73 supplementaries, and 97 Zero Hour issues recorded.
  • The session also featured elections to four Rajya Sabha seats, and BJP legislators walked out after an adjournment motion on flood victims was rejected.