The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by 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 on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.
Before the Lok Sabha polls, the CPI-M had offered to ally with the Congress-NCP, but sought the Dindori seat in Nashik district for its lone MLA in Maharashtra- Jiva Pandu Gavit, who represents.. DNA - Published
In the petition, social activist Tamanna Hashmi has accused the minister of state for labour and employment of "insulting" the people of north India by the statement. Gangwar, who made the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Congress and Nationalist Congress Party will contest 125 seats each in Maharashtra elections. The two partners had contested the 2014 polls separately but came together in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls ... IndiaTimes - Published
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed grief at the loss of 11 lives in a boat capsize incident in the Godavari River near Devipatnam village in Andhra Pradesh. Taking to Twitter, Lok Sabha.. IndiaTimes - Published
Over 80 former MPs are yet to vacate their official bungalows in Lutyens' Delhi despite a stern warning by a Lok Sabha panel, sources said. On August 19, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee headed by C R.. IndiaTimes - Published
On Saturday, NCP's Lok Sabha MP and a descendant of Shivaji Maharaja Udayanraje Bhosale joined BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis. DNA - Published
BJP MP from Sundargarh, Jual Oram is appointed as the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence, the Lok Sabha secretariat said in a bulletin on Friday. DNA - Published
BJP MPs Jayant Sinha and P P Choudhary will head the panels on finance and external affairs respectively. In the previous Lok Sabha, Congress' Veerappa Moily and Shashi Tharoor used to head the two.. IndiaTimes - Published
On Saturday, NCP's Lok Sabha MP and a descendant of Shivaji Maharaja Udayanraje Bhosale joined BJP in the presence of party president Amit Shah and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis. DNA - Published
The forthcoming elections in Maharashtra and Haryana are the first after the 2019 Lok Sabha election. They are the first after the Modi government nullified Article 370 of the Constitution. These are.. IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's comments that Brahmins always held a high place in society kicked-up a political row on Wednesday with opposition parties dubbing it as "casteist remarks". Apart from sharp.. IndiaTimes - Published
Sawant, a former Congress Lok Sabha MP, who later became a party MLC, had joined the AAP in the presence of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal at Sindkhedraja in January 2018 DNA - Published
The 87-year-old leader took the membership of the saffron party in the presence of UP BJP chief Swatantradev Singh. His son Rajveer Singh, Lok Sabha MP from Etah, and grandson Sandeep Singh, minister.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Congress on Monday appointed former president Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee and and ex-Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar's son Anshul Kumar as national spokespersons. Congress.. IndiaTimes - Published
In an organisational reshuffle on Wednesday, Congress downgraded Praveen Chakravarty, the incumbent chief of the party's data analytics department. He had been at the receiving end of considerable.. IndiaTimes - Published
Adhir Chowdhury, the leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday conceded that the party and others in the opposition are losing the "battle of perception" as they are being branded as.. IndiaTimes - Published
Differences seem to have cropped up in the Congress' Assam unit over the NRC, with former chief minister Tarun Gogoi describing it a "waste paper" and a Lok Sabha MP terming it a "historic scientific.. IndiaTimes - Published
Union minister Smriti Irani, who defeated former Congress president and three-term Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi in the last Lok Sabha elections, said she saw there "some people picking up grain from mud to.. IndiaTimes - Published
Patil, a former Maharashtra minister, is the son of Padmasinh Patil, a close aide of Pawar. Padmasinh Patil's sister is married to Pawar's nephew and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar... IndiaTimes - Published
Sunny Deol, who was elected as MP from Gurdaspur after defeating Cong's Sunil Jakhar by 82,459 votes in the Lok Sabha polls this year, has come under scrutiny for his lack of attendance in the Lower.. IndiaTimes - Published
RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari says that everyone has accepted Tejashwi and he has proved to be a universal leader in the Lok Sabha elections DNA - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday lauded the Union government's decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the people of the country were demanding "one nation, one.. IndiaTimes - Published
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Satya Pal Malik said, "We managed to keep things under control during Panchayat elections, Lok Sabha elections and even now. Every Kashmiri life is valuable.. IndiaTimes - Published
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday slammed Rahul Gandhi's "stealing from RBI" attack at the government and said the people of the country had given the Congress leader and his party a.. IndiaTimes - Published
Amit Shah was earlier staying at 11, Akbar Road residence. The home minister was allotted Vajpayee's bungalow after the BJP stormed back into power for a second successive time in the Lok Sabha.. IndiaTimes - Published
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday slammed leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury saying that he has buried his party in the grave by his remarks in Parliament. DNA - Published
Defence minister Rajnath Singh compared BJP's 303 members in LS to '3 Nought 3' British rifle. Singh lauded the efforts by BJP workers during the 17th LS polls. "You party workers have added a new.. IndiaTimes - Published
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will pay a three-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency, Wayanad from August 26, to meet the locals and leaders of the party. Earlier this month, Rahul went on a two-day.. IndiaTimes - Published
The petition had sought that the court directs the election watchdogs to call for expenses incurred by political parties such as the MNS, who had not contested a single seat, but held rallies and.. DNA - Published
By-elections for the two Rajya Sabha seats vacated by BJP's Amit Shah and Smriti Irani post their Lok Sabha victory was held on July 5 in which Jaishankar and Thakor emerged as winners against.. DNA - Published
According to sources, the new line of investigation by ED as well as CBI will cover the FIPB approvals granted to Diageo Scotland Ltd, Katara Holdings, Essar Steel Ltd and Elforge Ltd. As in the case.. IndiaTimes - Published
President Ram Nath Kovind addressing the nation on the eve of India's 73rd Independence Day celebrations delivered a message of peace, harmony and goodwill, and reminded fellow countrymen of continuing.. DNA - Published
Sources says Sharma's father and former Union minister Pandit Sukhram had asked the BJP for a Lok Sabha ticket for his grandson and Sharma's son, Aashray DNA - Published
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday expelled former Himachal Pradesh power minister Anil Sharma from the party. Sharma is the son of former Union minister Sukh Ram, who had quit the BJP and.. IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla became popular in the very first session of Parliament because of the manner in which he presided over the proceedings of the Lower House. "The day I was given the.. IndiaTimes - Published
In July last year, Shashi Tharoor had said if BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it would create a condition leading to the formation of a 'Hindu Pakistan'. Addressing an event in.. IndiaTimes - Published
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday expressed honour and pleasure to people of his Lok Sabha constituency for displaying "bravery and dignity" when Kerala is facing the wrath of nature. IndiaTimes - Published
A parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will visit the Maldives to participate in the 4th South Asian Speaker's Summit scheduled to be held on September 1 and 2. IndiaTimes - Published
Gandhi, who represents Wayanad constituency in the Lok Sabha, is on a two-day visit to review the relief measure in the district. On the first day, he visited relief camps and held a meeting with local.. DNA - Published
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday began his Kerala visit to review situation in his Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency ravaged by floods and landslides. Gandhi, who won with a record margin from the hill.. IndiaTimes - Published
The decision comes as a surprise to everyone, as Rahul Gandhi who resigned from the party leadership after Lok Sabha elections debacle, had earlier said that no member from the Gandhi family will.. DNA - Published
Vowing to make the Parliament paperless by the next session, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday announced some new steps to facilitate effective participation of the members in the proceedings. "An.. IndiaTimes - Published
Arguing that the legislation approved by Parliament and the orders issued by the President subsequently were "unconstitutional", the petition prayed for these to be declared as "void and inoperative"... IndiaTimes - Published
Sources close to the party have revealed that the party will now work to garner Hindu votes especially after analysis after the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 DNA - Published
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