Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that the budgets and the bills that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is passing in the parliament while in power today are the same ones that they had opposed when they were in the opposition.
"The BJP Government has nothing to present anything new from their side. They are passing the same bills that they opposed when they were in Opposition," said Nabi.
"The Interim budget and the Railway budget were same as we had presented. The NDA is now working on all the bills that we had passed in the cabinet. When they were in the Opposition, they did not let us work," he said.
"This (National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill) was proposed by the UPA government but at that time BJP did not let us pass it and now when they have come to power, they passed it," he added.
The National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014, was passed in the Rajya Sabha earlier today.
The Bill was passed by a voice vote and will result in the scrapping of the current collegium system of appointment of judges.
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