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Legislative Council is a house without any effective powers. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Principal Organs of Government

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Bicameralism is compulsory for the Union but optional for the states: under Article 169 Parliament may create or abolish a Legislative Council by ordinary law once the Assembly asks for it by a special majority. Only six states keep one, and each Council's constitutional weapons are few. On paper the statement is largely accurate; in…

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