SC to consider pleas against passage of laws as money bills

Passage of bills, like Aadhaar Act, PMLA apparently to circumvent the Rajya Sabha has been at the centre of a major political and legal row

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a suggestion for setting up a constitution bench to hear pleas challenging the validity of passage of laws like the Aadhaar Act by Modi government as money bills allegedly to bypass the Rajya Sabha where it was in a minority.

The BJP currently has 86 MPs and the ruling NDA 101 in the 245-member Rajya Sabha where the majority mark is 123.