The legislative council’s powers and status are unequal to the assembly’s in:
- A Money Bill can be introduced only in the assembly.
- The council cannot amend or reject a money bill; must return within 14 days.
- The assembly can accept or reject council’s recommendations on a money bill.
- The Speaker of the assembly has the final power to decide if a bill is a money bill.
- The assembly has the final power of passing an ordinary bill.
- The council can only discuss the budget but cannot vote on demands for grants.
- The council cannot remove the council of ministers by a no-confidence motion.
- If a bill originating in the council is rejected by the assembly, it ends.
- The council does not participate in the election of the president of India and representatives of the state in the Rajya Sabha.
- The council has no effective say in the ratification of a constitutional amendment bill.
- The very existence of the council depends on the will of the assembly.