I feel like a lot of private member bills are better than Government drafted bills. In these sense that they address many different topics that are very much huge. Yet they almost never pass ? Why ? And is there any efforts to change this ?

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a year ago

When I checked the digital sansad website for private member bills in both houses. I got more bills on the topics I was looking for that were private member bills than there were government drafted bills. There's bills on things like right to healthcare , a hate speech and hate crimes bill that protects multiple open ended classes of people , a national youth comission which actually has broad powers to promote and defend the interests of youth. These are all included in bills drafted by private members yet due to the way parliamentary rules favour government drafted bills over private member bills. It takes years for bills to even by discussed and a large amount outright get lapsed. Why is this ? I hear that government drafted bills involve broad consultations with stakeholders yet I barely hear about calls for input. I feel like we urgently need the parliament to consider many of these bills

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