Parliament in NDA-II rule passed just one bill more than UPA-II

NEW DELHI: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, which has a majority in the Lok Sabha but not in the Rajya Sabha, managed to pass 180 bills in both houses of Parliament. This was slightly higher than the United Progressive Alliance-ii (UPA) tally of 179 bills, which was the lowest figure for a full Lok Sabha tenure.

The UPA-I government man- aged to push 248 pieces of legislation through both Houses. The productivity of the current Lok Sabha, which sat for the last time on Wednesday, was marginally better than the previous Lok Sabha under the UPA-II government (2009-14) but lower than it was during the tenure of the UPA-I administration (2004-09), government data shows. It passed 205 bills. According to govern- ment data, 47 of the 180 bills passed by Parliament between 2014 and 2019 were budget related. And 46 bills, which couldn’t be passed, will lapse at the time of dissolution of the Lok Sabha. Throughout its five-year tenure, the NDA government remained short of a majority in the Upper House and a strident Opposition was able to block the passage of several bills.