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The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the president of ...
In India, a motion of no confidence can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India) and after at least 50 Lok Sabha members support it, the Speaker may grant a leave and after considering the state of business in the House, allot a day or days or part of a day for the discussion of the motion (under sub-rule ...
The 17th Lok Sabha is the first and only Lok Sabha that did not have a deputy speaker. In February 2023, Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud led a body seeking responses to public interest litigation , contending that the protracted vacancy is “against the letter and spirit of the Constitution".
Each member of parliament represents a single geographic constituency. The maximum size of the Lok Sabha as outlined in the Constitution of India is 550 members, made up of up to 530 members representing people of 28 states and 20 members representing people of 8 union territories based on their population. There are currently 543 ...
A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of parliament of Lok Sabha are chosen by direct elections on the basis of the adult suffrage. The maximum permitted strength of members of parliament in the Lok Sabha ...
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 ...
This is a list of members of the 18th Lok Sabha arranged by the states and union territories they are elected from. These MPs were elected in the 2024 Indian general election held in April–June 2024. [1] [2] [3]
This is a list of members of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019), arranged by state-wise and union territory-wise representation in Lok sabha. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These members of the Lower house of the Indian Parliament were elected in the 2014 Indian general election held from 7 April to 12 May 2014.