Английская Википедия:17th Lok Sabha
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Indian English Шаблон:Infobox legislative term Шаблон:Politics of India 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 the Speaker of the House. As no party holds 10% of the seats to secure the position of Leader of Opposition, currently, there is no Leader of the Opposition. However, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, which is the second largest party.[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 Шаблон:INRConvert; average assets were Шаблон:INRConvert. Around 39 percent of members are professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.Шаблон:Citation needed
Members
- Speaker: Om Birla, BJP[4]
- Deputy Speaker: Vacant[5]
- Leader of the House: Narendra Modi, BJP[6]
- Leader of Opposition: Vacant
- Secretary General: Utpal Kumar Singh[7]
Party-wise distribution of seats
Statistics
| Party | Elected members |
Members with criminal charges |
Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | BJP | 303 | 116 | 39% |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | INC | 60 | 128 | 57% |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | DMK | 24 | 47 | 43% |
| bgcolor=Шаблон:Party color| | JD(U) | 16 | 13 | 81% |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | AITC | 22 | 9 | 41% |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | 10 | 5 | 50% | |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | 3 | 2 | 67% | |
| bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | | 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 Шаблон:INRConvert) are 475. Members with more than Шаблон:INRConvert assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was Шаблон:INRConvert and Nakul Nath of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly Шаблон:INRConvert.[13] Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with Шаблон:INRConvert and D. K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural constituency with Шаблон:INRConvert; 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]
Bills
As of November 2021, during the tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha, 12% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination.[16][17][18]
Subsequent by-elections and vacancies
2023 Security Breach
On 13 December 2023, two protestors breached the parliament and entered the Lok Sabha.[19] The parliament security breach was organized 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.[20][21]
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][23] 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.[24][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 organzations.[26]
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 until 22 December for protesting against a security breach in the parliament.[27]
See also
Footnotes
References
External links
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