18th Lok Sabha

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Overview
Legislative body Indian Parliament
TermJune 2024 – June 2029
Election 2024 Indian general election
Government Fifth National Democratic Alliance Government
Opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance
Sovereign
President Droupadi Murmu
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
House of the People
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Members543
Speaker of the House Om Birla
Leader of the House Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi
Party control National Democratic Alliance

The 18th Lok Sabha was formed after general elections were held in India over seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024, to elect all members from 543 constituencies of the Lok Sabha. The votes were counted, and the results were declared on 4 June 2024. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the majority seats with 240, followed by the Indian National Congress (INC) with 98 seats. With the required absolute majority being 272 seats, having 293 seats, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition formed the government. [1] [2] [3] Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi (BJP) is the Leader of the House and Rahul Gandhi (INC) is the Leader of Opposition.

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Members

On 26 June 2024, Om Birla, was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha, defeating the opposition candidate Kodikunnil Suresh, in a voice vote, making it fourth election of Lok Sabha speaker in the history of India. [5] The last time elections were held for the post of speaker was in 1976 during the tenure of the 5th Lok Sabha, with Baliram Bhagat of INC(R) defeating Jagannathrao Joshi of BJS. Birla became the 5th Speaker of the Lok Sabha to retain his post for 2 consecutive terms, after G. M. C. Balayogi, Balram Jakhar, G. S. Dhillon and M. A. Ayyangar. [6]

Panel of Chairpersons

Members of the Panel of Chairpersons for 2024 - 2029 term in Lok Sabha
Sl.noChairperson namePartySeatTerm startTerm endAppointed by
1. Jagdambika Pal BJP Domariyaganj 1 July 2024Incumbent Om Birla
2. P. C. Mohan BJP Bangalore Central
3. Sandhya Ray BJP Bhind
4. Dilip Saikia BJP Darrang–Udalguri
5. Selja Kumari INC Sirsa
6. A. Raja DMK Nilgiris
7. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar AITC Barasat
8. Krishna Prasad Tenneti TDP Bapatla
9. Awadhesh Prasad SP Faizabad

Party-wise distribution of seats

Party wise distribution with leaders
PartySeatsLeader in Lok SabhaLeader's seatAlliance
BJP 240 Narendra Modi Varanasi NDA
INC 97 Rahul Gandhi Rae Bareli INDIA
SP 37 Akhilesh Yadav Kannauj INDIA
AITC 29 Sudip Bandyopadhyay Kolkata Uttar INDIA
DMK 22 T. R. Baalu Sriperumbudur INDIA
TDP 16 Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu Narasaraopet NDA
JD(U) 12 Dileshwar Kamait Supaul NDA
SS(UBT) 9 Arvind Sawant South Mumbai INDIA
NCP(SP) 8 Supriya Sule Baramati INDIA
SHS 7 Shrirang Barne Maval NDA
LJP(RV) 5 Chirag Paswan Hajipur NDA
CPI(M) 4 K. Radhakrishnan Alathur INDIA
RJD 4 Abhay Kushwaha Aurangabad INDIA
YSRCP 4 P. V. Midhun Reddy Rajampet Others
AAP 3 Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer Sangrur INDIA
IUML 3 E. T. Mohammed Basheer Malappuram INDIA
JMM 3 Vijay Kumar Hansdak Rajmahal INDIA
CPI(ML)L 2 Sudama Prasad Arrah INDIA
CPI 2 K. Subbarayan Tiruppur INDIA
JD(S) 2 H. D. Kumaraswamy Mandya NDA
JKNC 2 Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi Srinagar INDIA
JSP 2 Vallabhaneni Balashowry Machilipatnam NDA
RLD 2 Dr. Rajkumar Sangwan Baghpat NDA
VCK 2 Thol. Thirumavalavan Chidambaram INDIA
AD(S) 1 Anupriya Patel Mirzapur NDA
AGP 1 Phani Bhusan Choudhury Barpeta NDA
AIMIM 1 Asaduddin Owaisi Hyderabad Others
AJSU 1 Chandra Prakash Choudhary Giridih NDA
ASP(KR) 1 Chandrashekhar Azad Nagina Others
BAP 1 Rajkumar Roat Banswara INDIA
HAM(S) 1 Jitan Ram Manjhi Gaya NDA
KEC 1 K. Francis George Kottayam INDIA
NCP 1 Sunil Tatkare Raigad NDA
MDMK 1 Durai Vaiko Tiruchirappalli INDIA
RLP 1 Hanuman Beniwal Nagaur INDIA
RSP 1 N.K. Premachandran Kollam INDIA
SAD 1 Harsimrat Kaur Badal Bathinda Others
SKM 1 Indra Hang Subba Sikkim NDA
UPPL 1 Joyanta Basumatary Kokrajhar NDA
VPP 1 Ricky AJ Syngkon Shillong Others
ZPM 1 Richard Vanlalhmangaiha Mizoram Others
Independent 7 [7]

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Others
Vacant 2NANA
Total543----

Member statistics

Data of members with criminal charges of major parties [10] [11]
PartyElected
members		Members with
criminal charges		Percent
BJP 2409439%
INC 994949%
SP 372156%
AITC 291345%
DMK 221359%
TDP 16850%
JD(U) 12217%
SHS 7571%
CPI(M) 400%
RJD 44100%
AAP 3133%
CPI 200%
CPI(ML)L 22100%
Independent 7571%
Party-wise

The 18th Lok Sabha has members from 41 different parties. Out of the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha, 346 members (~64%) are from the 6 recognised national parties, 179 seats (~33%) are from the recognised state parties, 11 seats (~2%) are from the unrecognised parties and 7 seats (~1%) are from independent politicians. 262 (~48%) have previously served as MPs and 216 (~40%) were re-elected from the 17th Lok Sabha. [12]

Age, gender and religion

The average age of the elected MPs is 56 years, down from 59 years in the 17th Lok Sabha. Four elected MPs are of the age of 25, which is the minimum age to contest: Shambhavi Choudhary (of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) party from Samastipur seat), Sanjana Jatav (of Indian National Congress party from Bharatpur seat), Pushpendra Saroj (of Samajwadi Party from Kaushambi seat) and Priya Saroj (of Samajwadi Party from Machhlishahr seat). The oldest elected MP was T. R. Baalu (of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party from Sriperumbudur seat) at the age of 82 having won the national elections for the seventh time. [13] The number of women was reduced by four to 74 (~14%), [12] considerably short of the 33% which will be required after the Women's Reservation Bill, 2023 is enforced. This Bill will be enacted after the delimitation of constituencies happens after the 2024 elections and next census. [14] Out of all the women candidates contesting the elections, only 9.3% won. [15] The present Lok Sabha has a husband-wife couple of Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple (both of SP Party, from Kannauj seat and Mainpuri seat respectively). The last time a couple had been elected was in the 16th Lok Sabha. [16] In terms of religion, 24 MPs are Muslims (4.4%), [17] three are Buddhists (0.6%), [18] and the remaining 95% comprise Hindu, Sikh, Christian, and non-religious MPs. [19]

Crime

The Association for Democratic Reforms has noted that nearly 46% of the elected members (251) have criminal cases registered against them. Of these, 170 (~31%) have been registered with serious crimes that include rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, and various crimes against women. Comparing this with the 17th Lok Sabha, a total of 233 MPs (~43%) had criminal charges with 159 (~29%) had serious crimes registered against them. [10]

Education

As per the self-declared forms submitted before the polls, all of the elected MPs are literate. During the election, 121 candidates had recorded themselves to be illiterates but none of them won. [20] 78% of members have at least undergraduate education and 5% have doctorates. Professionally, the majority of them indicated they were social workers or agriculturists, while 7% were lawyers and 4% were medical practitioners. [21]

Assets

With regards to economic standing, 93% of MPs hold family assets of more than ₹1 crore (US$120,000) worth, which is an increase from 88% in 2019. [19] The average assets of all the MPs of the house computes to ₹46.34 crore (US$5.6 million). [11] TDP member Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, a doctor and businessman, has declared the highest assets of ₹5,700 crore (US$680 million). [22]

Sessions

Lok Sabha usually has three sessions in a year Budget Session (February to May), Monsoon session (July to September) and Winter session (November to December). Following sessions were held of 18th Lok Sabha.

SessionDurationKey EventsRef.
124 June 2024 - 2 July 2024
  • Oaths of all MPs.
  • Election of Speaker.
  • President's address in joint session of both Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha followed with Motion of Thanks to the same.
 [23] [24]
222 July 2024 - 9 August 2024
 [26]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 7 MPs were elected as independent. After results, 3 independent MPs, (Vishal Patil from Sangli, Pappu Yadav from Purnea and Mohmad Haneefa from Ladakh) decided to support the Congress. [8]
  2. ↑ The seat is vacant since its elected MP Rahul Gandhi, was also elected from the Rae Bareli seat and decided to vacate his seat of Wayanad.

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