With reference to the Parliament of India, consider the following statements : 1. A private member's bill is a bill presented by a Member of Parliament who is not elected but only nominated by the President of India. 2. Recently, a private member's bill has been passed in the Parliament of India for the first time in its history. Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

Option (d) is correct because a private member is defined as any Member of Parliament who is not a Minister (regardless of whether they are elected or nominated), and fourteen private member's bills have been passed in India's history, with the last one being enacted in 1970. Statement 2 is the most tempting error because recent high-profile bills, such as the Rights of Transgender Persons Bill (2014), passed the Rajya Sabha but failed to become law, leading to the misconception that a breakthrough had occurred. The core concept tested is the procedural distinction between Government Bills and Private Member's Bills and the historical record of legislative business in the Indian Parliament.