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The Parliament of India a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). Membership is limited to 245 members. 233 are elected by the State legislative assemblies, and 12 are nominated by the president of India for their contributions to art, literature, science, and social services.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major parties in the political system of Republic of India, the other being the Indian National Congress (INC). [1] As of 2015, it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Lok Sabha (House of the People), [2] and is the world's largest political party in terms of primary membership. [3]
Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the state of Madhya Pradesh. The party appointed V. D. Sharma , who took over from Rakesh Singh , as the President of the party on 15 February 2020.
Four of the BJP chief ministers have been women – Sushma Swaraj in Delhi, Uma Bharti in Madhya Pradesh, Anandiben Patel in Gujarat and Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, who is chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for more than 15 years has been the longest-serving chief minister from the BJP.
Vajpayee became the first president of the BJP upon its formation in 1980. Under him the BJP projected itself as a centrist party that had moved away from the strident politics of the BJS. Vajpayee, often seen as the moderate face of the BJP, later became the first Prime Minister of India not from the Indian National Congress to serve a full ...
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha: Representative of the Indian states to the upper house of the Parliament of India (Rajya Sabha). In addition to the 29 MPs representing the state in the upper and lower houses, there are 4 MPs from Keralam who have either been nominated or elected from other states .
Seat distribution in 17th Lok Sabha by party. This is a list of members of the 17th Lok Sabha arranged by the states and union territories they were elected from. These MPs were elected in the 2019 Indian general election held in April–May 2019, and took their seats on 17 June of that year.
The list of current and past Rajya Sabha members from the Madhya Pradesh State. The state elects 11 member for a term of six years and these members indirectly elected by the state legislators of Madhya Pradesh using single transferable votes. Members sit for staggered six-year terms, with one third of the members retiring every two years. [1]