17th Lok Sabha

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17th Lok Sabha
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Overview
Term 24 May 2019 –
Election 2019 Indian general election
Government Third National Democratic Alliance Government
Sovereign
President Ram Nath Kovind
Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu
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
Party control National Democratic Alliance

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.

Om Birla was elected as speaker of the house. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury holds the position of Leader of Opposition.[2][3]

The 17th Lok Sabha has the most women representatives, at 14 percent. 267 members are first-time MPs. 233 members (43 percent) have had criminal charges against them. 475 members have their declared assets to be more than ₹1 crore (US$150,000); average assets were ₹20.9 crore (US$3.1 million). Around 39 percent of members are professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.

Members

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Main article: List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha
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Party-wise seat distribution in the 17th Lok Sabha

Party-wise distribution of seats

Party wise distribution as of 1 January 2022[1][lower-alpha 1]
Party Abbr. Seats Leader in Lok Sabha
Bharatiya Janata Party BJP 301 Narendra Modi
Indian National Congress INC 53 Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury[9]
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam DMK 24[lower-alpha 1] T. R. Baalu[10]
YSR Congress Party YSRCP 22 P. V. Midhun Reddy[11]
All India Trinamool Congress AITC 22 Sudip Bandyopadhyay[12]
Shiv Sena SS 19 Vinayak Raut[13]
Janata Dal (United) JD(U) 16 Rajiv Ranjan Singh[14]
Biju Janata Dal BJD 12 Pinaki Misra[15]
Bahujan Samaj Party BSP 10 Kunwar Danish Ali (till July 2019)
Shyam Singh Yadav[lower-alpha 2][17]
Telangana Rashtra Samithi TRS 9 Nama Nageswara Rao[18]
Lok Janshakti Party LJP 6 Pashupati Kumar Paras[19]
Nationalist Congress Party NCP 5 Supriya Sule
Samajwadi Party SP 3 Mulayam Singh Yadav
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 3 A. M. Ariff
Indian Union Muslim League IUML 3 E. T. Mohammed Basheer
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference JKNC 3 Farooq Abdullah
Telugu Desam Party TDP 3 Galla Jayadev
Communist Party of India CPI 2 K. Subbarayan
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM 2 Asaduddin Owaisi
Shiromani Akali Dal SAD 2 Sukhbir Singh Badal
Apna Dal (Sonelal) AD(S) 2 Anupriya Patel
Janata Dal (Secular) JD(S) 1 Prajwal Revanna
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK 1 P. Ravindhranath
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha JMM 1 Vijay Hansdak
All Jharkhand Students Union AJSU 1 Chandra Prakash Choudhary
Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party NDPP 1 Tokheho Yepthomi
National Peoples Party NPP 1 Agatha Sangma
Naga People's Front NPF 1 Lorho S. Pfoze
Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP 1 N. K. Premachandran
Kerala Congress (Mani) KC(M) 1 Thomas Chazhikadan
Mizo National Front MNF 1 C. Lalrosanga
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha SKM 1 Indra Hang Subba
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi VCK 1 Thirumavalavan
All India United Democratic Front AIUDF 1 Badruddin Ajmal
Rashtriya Loktantrik Party RLP 1 Hanuman Beniwal
Independents IND. 5  –
TOTAL 543  –
Vacant VAC. 2  –

Statistics

Party-wise members with criminal charges[20]
Party Elected
members		 Members with
criminal charges		 Percent
BJP 303 116 39%
INC 52 29 57%
DMK 24 10 43%
JD(U) 16 13 81%
AITC 22 9 41%

The 17th Lok Sabha has the highest ever number of women politicians with a total of 78 which is nearly 14%.[21] 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.[22][23] 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.[21] BJP members Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur constituency and Santosh Gangwar from Bareilly constituency has been elected to Lok Sabha for the eighth time.[24] Religion-wise, 90.4% members are Hindus and 5.2% are Muslims, with the rest, nearly 4%, being Sikhs, Christians and other minorities.[24]

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.[20]

Financially, the number of members who are crorepati (i.e. with declared assets more than ₹1 crore (US$150,000)) are 475. Members with more than ₹5 crore (US$740,000) assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was ₹20.9 crore (US$3.1 million) and Nakul Nath of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly ₹660 crore (US$98 million).[25] Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with ₹417 crore (US$62 million) and D. K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural constituency with ₹338 crore (US$50 million); both being of Congress party.[26]

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.[27]

Bills

As of November 2021, during the tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha, 12% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination.[28][29][30]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elections in Vellore constituency were held later in August 2019 and won by DMK. The same has been included in table making their total to 24.[8]
  2. ↑ Kunwar Danish Ali was removed as Leader of House and replaced with Shyam Singh Yadav after Ali went against the party's decision to support revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in Lok Sabha.[16]

References

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