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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is before us is an example of rushed Bills. They want to solve an anomaly in a rushed Bill through rushing other amendments. It is not in vain that the regulations require that we look at a Bill for 14 days. A culture seems to be developing and it is creeping in very dangerously; this Parliament is moving towards handling legislative matters in an extremely casual manner. We are hearing that it is not even necessary for Committees to look at Bills. In my view, this is dangerous. We shall rush through these laws and we shall pass very faulty laws. I want to oppose this tendency by the Executive to reduce publication period and I also want to oppose the current tendency by the Chair to ignore Committees and to say that we can go straight to handling Bills on the Floor of the House without giving such Bills quality time. The Constitution demands that there should be participation of the public in all the laws that we are actually dealing with. Why are we not willing to go by the spirit of the Constitution? The Minister himself is quite alive to these issues. It is through the ârushâ arrangements that you made, that we actually went ahead to make a law that you could not implement. Look at several others that are before us. I want to request that we allow Parliament to scrutinize this particular Bill. There is nothing exceptionally bad with this one but I am opposed to that tendency."
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