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The following table indicates the total number of seats and the number of seats reserved for SC and ST statewise. [6] Between 1952 and 2020, two seats were reserved in the Lok Sabha for members of the Anglo-Indian community. They were nominated by the President of India on the advice of the Government of India.
But was never voted on in the Lok Sabha. [11] In 2023 September, a similar bill Women's Reservation Bill, proposed to reserve 1/3 of all seats in Lok Sabha, and in all state legislative assemblies for women. It was passed in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha becoming a law. [12]
In January 2020, the Anglo-Indian reserved seats in the Parliament and State Legislatures of India were abolished by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The reason cited by the Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who introduced the Bill in the Lok Sabha is that the Anglo-Indians population in India was just 296 in the ...
The INDIA coalition outperformed expectations, securing 234 seats, 99 of which were won by the Congress, garnering the party the official opposition status for the first time in 10 years. [19] [20] [21] Seven independents and ten candidates from non-aligned parties also won seats in the Lok Sabha. [22] [23] [24]
Lok Sabha TV was an Indian public cable television network channel that offered coverage of central government proceedings and other public affairs programming. [2] Its remit was to make accessible to all the work of the parliamentary and legislative bodies of India.
The constitution provides that the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha be 550 members. The Lok Sabha has a term of five years. To be eligible for membership in the Lok Sabha, a person must be a citizen of India and must be 25 years of age or older, not hold any office of profit under union or state government, mentally sound, should not be ...
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 Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 2020.