New Delhi: Seven bills, including a law to amend the UPA’s flagship Right to Information Act and the controversial Triple Talaq Bill, might run into trouble in the Rajya Sabha with the Opposition parties demanding that these be sent to select committees or joint select committees for further scrutiny.
The other bills are the Code Wages Bill, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code Bill, the Inter-State River Waters Disputes (Amendment) Bill, the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Bill and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill.
The decision to seek sending of the bills to the select committee was taken at a meeting of Opposition parties in the Parliament House complex on Wednesday.
The meeting was attended, among others, by Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, TMC parliamentary leader Derek O'Brien, RJD leaders Manoj Jha and Misa Bharti, CPI’s D. Raja and Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Anand Sharma.
