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New Delhi: While the national attention remained fixed on the Pahalgam attack, the subsequent military operation, US President Donald Trump’s provocations, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral gains in Delhi and Bihar, and the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in 2025, India’s state legislatures quietly passed more than 600 Bills – 30% of them passed on the same day they were introduced, according to the PRS Annual Review of State Laws 2025. This is an uptick from about 500 Bills passed in 2024. 

The trend is reflective of the culture of rushed discussions under the Modi government. Karnataka passed the highest number of Bills – 84 – in just 34 sitting days, including 17 Bills passed in one sitting and 12 in another. Similarly, Assam cleared 60 Bills in 21 days, 14 of them in a single sitting.

State assemblies are increasingly taking cues from the parliament debates and passing Bills with limited scrutiny. Seven Assemblies – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Puducherry and........

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