{"id":15766,"date":"2021-08-02T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=15766"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:25:07","slug":"passing-legislation-or-making-papri-chaat-asks-derek-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/passing-legislation-or-making-papri-chaat-asks-derek-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing legislation or making papri chaat? Asks Derek O\u2019Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O\u2019Brien on Monday equated the Central government\u2019s passing of bills through Parliament with the making of <em>papri chaat<\/em>. He said bills were being passed &#8220;at an average time of under seven minutes per bill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien took to Twitter to write: \u201cIn the first 10 days, Modi-Shah rushed through and passed 12 bills at an average time of UNDER SEVEN MINUTES per Bill&#8230;\u201d He added: \u201cPassing legislation or making\u00a0<em>papri chaat<\/em>!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added in his post a list of bills passed through Parliament which showed that each was passed within minutes of its introduction. The quickest was the Coconut Development Board Bill (passed in one minute) and the slowest the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Bill (passed in 14 minutes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O\u2019Brien on Monday equated the Central government\u2019s passing of bills through Parliament with the making of papri chaat. He said bills were being passed &#8220;at an average time of under seven minutes per bill\u201d. O\u2019Brien took to Twitter to write: \u201cIn the first 10 days, Modi-Shah rushed through and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":7664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57,424,436,252,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-bjp","9":"tag-derek-obrien","10":"tag-members-of-parliament","11":"tag-parliament","12":"tag-top-story","13":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15766"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=15766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}