The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election.[1] Elections, all across India, were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day.
| 17th Lok Sabha | |||||
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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Indian Parliament | ||||
| Term | 17 June 2019 – 5 June 2024 | ||||
| Election | 2019 Indian general election | ||||
| Government | Fourth National Democratic Alliance Government | ||||
| Sovereign | |||||
| President | Ram Nath Kovind Droupadi Murmu | ||||
| Vice President | M. Venkaiah Naidu Jagdeep Dhankhar | ||||
| House of the People | |||||
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| Members | 543 | ||||
| Speaker of the House | Om Birla | ||||
| Leader of the House | Narendra Modi | ||||
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Vacant[a] | ||||
| Party control | National Democratic Alliance | ||||
Om Birla was elected as the Speaker of the House. As no party had 10% of the seats to secure the position of Leader of Opposition, there was no Leader of the Opposition. However, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, which was the second largest party during the 17th Lok Sabha.[2][3]
The 17th Lok Sabha had the most women representatives, at 14 percent. 267 members were first-time MPs. 233 members (43 percent) have had criminal charges against them. 475 members had their declared assets to be more than ₹1 crore (US$120,000); average assets were ₹20.9 crore (US$2.5 million). Around 39 percent of members were professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.[citation needed]
Members
edit- Speaker: Om Birla, BJP[4]
- Deputy Speaker: Vacant[5]
- Leader of the House: Narendra Modi, BJP[6]
- Leader of Opposition: Rahul Gandhi
- Secretary General: Utpal Kumar Singh[7]
Party-wise distribution of seats
edit| Party | Seats | Leader in Lok Sabha | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 303 | Narendra Modi | |
| INC | 52 | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | |
| DMK | 23 | T. R. Baalu | |
| AITC | 22 | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | |
| YSRCP | 22 | P. V. Midhun Reddy | |
| JD(U) | 16 | Rajiv Ranjan | |
| SS | 18 | Rahul Shewale | |
| BJD | 12 | Pinaki Misra | |
| BSP | 10 | Girish Chandra | |
| BRS | 8 | Nageswara Rao | |
| SS(UBT) | 5 | Vinayak Raut | |
| RLJP | 5 | Pashupati Kumar Paras | |
| NCP-SP | 4 | Supriya Sule | |
| TDP | 3 | K Ram Mohan Naidu | |
| IUML | 3 | E. T. Mohammed Basheer | |
| JKNC | 3 | Farooq Abdullah | |
| CPI(M) | 3 | P R Natarajan | |
| SP | 5 | S. T. Hasan | |
| CPI | 1 | K. Subbarayan | |
| AD(S) | 2 | Anupriya Patel | |
| SAD | 2 | Harsimrat Kaur Badal | |
| AIMIM | 2 | Asaduddin Owaisi | |
| AIUDF | 1 | Badruddin Ajmal | |
| SAD(A) | 1 | Simranjit Singh Mann | |
| KC(M) | 1 | T. Chazhikadan | |
| JD(S) | 1 | Prajwal Revanna | |
| NCP | 1 | Sunil Tatkare | |
| LJP(RV) | 2 | Chirag Paswan | |
| JMM | 1 | Vijay Hansdak | |
| AAP | 0 | ||
| VCK | 1 | T.Thirumavalan | |
| RSP | 1 | Premchandran | |
| NDPP | 1 | T.Yepthomi | |
| AJSU | 1 | CP Choudhary | |
| NPF | 1 | Lorho Pfoze | |
| NPP | 1 | Agatha Sangma | |
| MNF | 1 | C. Lalrosanga | |
| SKM | 1 | I.H Subba | |
| Independent | 2 | ||
| Vacant | 30 | ||
Statistics
edit| Party | Elected members |
Members with criminal charges |
Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | 303 | 116 | 39% | |
| INC | 52 | 28 | 47% | |
| DMK | 24 | 10 | 43% | |
| JD(U) | 16 | 13 | 81% | |
| AITC | 22 | 9 | 41% | |
| 10 | 5 | 50% | ||
| 3 | 2 | 67% | ||
| 2 | 0 | 0% | ||
The 17th Lok Sabha has the highest ever number of women politicians with a total of 78 which is nearly 14%.[9] The earlier Lok Sabha had 62 women MPs. The average age of 17th Lok Sabha is noted to be 54 years and 12% of MPs are below the age of 40. Chandrani Murmu of BJD from Keonjhar constituency became the youngest member at the age of 25 years, 11 months and nine days and Shafiqur Rahman Barq of SP from Sambhal constituency became the oldest member at the age of 89.[10][11] Education-wise, 43% MPs have graduate-level education, 25% are post-graduates and 4% of members have doctorates in various subjects. Of the total strength, 300 members have been elected as member for the first time and 197 members have been elected second time consecutively i.e. they were a member in the 16th Lok Sabha as well.[9] BJP members Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur constituency and Santosh Gangwar from Bareilly constituency has been elected to Lok Sabha for the eighth time.[12] Religion-wise, 90.4% members are Hindus and 5.2% are Muslims, with the rest, nearly 4%, being Sikhs, Christians and other minorities.[12]
According to the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 233 members (i.e. 43%) have criminal charges against them. Of these, nearly 29% of the cases are rape, murder, attempted murder, or crime against women. Congress MP Dean Kuriakose, of the Idukki constituency in Kerala, has 204 criminal cases.[8]
Financially, the number of members who are crorepati (i.e. with declared assets more than ₹1 crore (US$120,000)) are 475. Members with more than ₹5 crore (US$600,000) assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was ₹20.9 crore (US$2.5 million) and Nakul Nath of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly ₹660 crore (US$79 million).[13] Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with ₹417 crore (US$50 million) and D. K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural constituency with ₹338 crore (US$40 million); both being of Congress party.[14]
Professionally, around 39% noted to be politicians or involved in social work. This is followed by 38% of members declaring as agriculturists and 23% as businessmen.[15]
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Bills
editAs of January 2024, during the tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha, only 16% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination[16] [17] and half of the bills passed so far were discussed only for less than two hours each. [18][19] Whereas, the average annual sitting days reduced to only 55 in the 17th Lok Sabha according to a statistical study by the non-profit PRS Legislative Research.[20]
Subsequent by-elections and vacancies
edit2023 Security Breach
editOn 13 December 2023, two protestors breached the parliament and entered the Lok Sabha.[21] The parliament security breach was organised by six protestors where two of the accused Sagar Sharma and D Manoranjan, jumped into the chamber from the visitor's gallery, and opened a yellow smoke canister, in an attempt to reach the Speaker's Chair. While outside the parliament, two others, Neelam Devi and Amol Shinde opened aerosol canister releasing a color smoke.[22][23]
The sixth individual, Vishal Sharma, was caught meters away from the parliament after filming and uploading the video of the protest outside Parliament to the social media platforms.[22][24] The leader of the protestors was Lalit Jha who is affiliated with the Samyabadi Subhas Sabha, a non-governmental organisation in West Bengal, and calls himself teacher on his Instagram profile.[22][25] The Delhi police told the court that it was well planned attack on the parliament and all the nabbed accused could be affiliated with terrorist organisations.[22]
Day after the security breach, MP Derek O'Brien of the Rajya Sabha and 13 MPs of Lok Sabha from the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam parties, were suspended till the remainder of the session for demanding a discussion on the breach.[26] A week later, 33 MPs from Lok Sabha and 46 members from Rajya Sabha were suspended taking the total number of MPs suspended in this session to 92.[27] Furthermore, 49 more members of Parliament (MPs) of the INDIA bloc of parties were suspended on 19 December 2023 for disrupting proceedings which took the total number of such suspensions in the two Houses to 141.[28]
See also
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Footnotes
edit- ^ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury served as the Leader of the Indian National Congress party in the Lok Sabha. There was no official opposition, as the opposition party is required to have at least 55 seats. The INC had a plurality (50) seats in the chamber.
References
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- ^ "Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu Becomes New Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha". msn.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "After Derek O'Brien, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Asks Standing Committee to Discuss 'Tek Fog'". The Wire. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "Om Birla unanimously elected as the speaker of Lok Sabha". Economic Times. 20 June 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Kumar Shakti Shekhar (31 July 2019). "Narendra Modi govt yet to appoint Lok Sabha deputy speaker, Congress slams delay". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ "Leader of the House". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Senior IAS officer Utpal Kumar Singh named Lok Sabha Secretary General". Economic Times. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
- ^ a b "43% newly-elected Lok Sabha MPs have criminal record: ADR". The Hindu. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ a b Khanna, Pretika (24 May 2019). "At 14%, 17th Lok Sabha has the highest number of women MPs". Live Mint. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "BJD's Chandrani Murmu, 25, becomes youngest Member of Parliament". MSN. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ Chaudhary, Anjan Kumar (28 May 2019). "17वीं लोकसभा के सबसे यंग और सबसे बूढ़े सांसद को जानिए". One India (in Hindi). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ a b "From faith to gender and profession to caste: A profile of the 17th Lok Sabha". Hindustan Times. 25 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ Deuskar, Nachiket (27 May 2019). "Composition of 17th Lok Sabha: Women's representation, education and professional backgrounds". Money Control. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "With Assets Worth Rs 660 Crore, Kamal Nath's Son Tops List of 475 Crorepati MPs in New Lok Sabha: Report". News 18. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ Rai, Kavya (22 June 2019). "What does the 17th Lok Sabha look like?". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ "The Importance of Parliamentary Committees". PRS Legislative Research. Archived from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "संसद में पेश 83 फीसदी विधेयक को संसदीय समिति की समीक्षा के लिए नहीं भेजा गया- रिपोर्ट". ABP (in Hindi). 26 August 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "Vital Stats". PRS Legislative Research. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "Half of bills passed by 17th Lok Sabha discussed for less than two hours each: Report". The Times of India. PTI. 22 December 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ Nair, Sobhana K. (11 February 2024). "Parliament's average annual sitting days down to 55 in the 17th Lok Sabha from 135 in the first". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ "The Indian Parliament was Just Attacked with Gas Bombs - The News Dispatcher". 13 December 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Terror charges invoked in Parliament security breach case". The Hindu. 14 December 2023.
- ^ "MPhil Degree, No Job: Parliament Protester's Mother On Why She Was Upset". 14 December 2023.
- ^ "Explained Lok Sabha security breach—What helped the two men elude tight security". 14 December 2023.
- ^ "Parliament security breach: 7-day police custody for 'mastermind' Lalit Jha". 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Parliament security breach: 14 India opposition MPs suspended for protests". BBC. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ Sharma, Akhilesh; Gunasekar, Arvind; Bose, Saikat Kumar (18 December 2023). "In Unprecedented Move, Close To 100 MPs Suspended From Parliament". NDTV. India News. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ Mohan, Archis (19 December 2023). "Winter Session: Lok Sabha clears 3 key Bills as 49 more Oppn MPs suspended". Business Standard. Retrieved 2 February 2024.