4th Lok Sabha

4th Lok Sabha
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Old Parliament House, Sansad Marg, New Delhi, India
Overview
Legislative body	Indian Parliament
Election	1967 Indian general election

The 4th Lok Sabha was in session from 4 March 1967 to 27 December 1970. Its members were elected in February and March 1967. 13 sitting members from the Rajya Sabha were elected to the 4th Lok Sabha in the general election. ^[1]

Indira Gandhi was again the Prime Minister, as in the 3rd Lok Sabha. Her premiership would continue into the following Lok Sabha, the 5th, which was constituted after the 1971 Indian general election.

Important members

• Speaker:
  • Neelam Sanjiva Reddy from 17 March 1967 to 19 July 1969
  • Gurdial Singh Dhillon from 8 August 1969 to 19 March 1971
• Deputy Speaker:
  • Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar from 28 March 1967 to 1 November 1969
  • George Gilbert Swell from 9 December 1969 to 27 December 1970
• Secretary General:
  • S. L. Shakdhar from 2 September 1964 to 18 June 1977 ^[2]

Membership by political party

See also: List of members of the 4th Lok Sabha

4th Lok Sabha Party Name	Code	Number of MP's (total 520)
Indian National Congress	INC	283
Swatantra Party	SP	44
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	BJS	35
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	DMK	25
Samyukta Socialist Party	SSP	23
Communist Party of India	CPI	23
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	19
Praja Socialist Party	PSP	13
Bangla Congress	BC	5
Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh	ADS	3
All India Forward Bloc	AIFB	2
Indian Union Muslim League	IUML	2
Peasants and Workers Party of India	PWPI	2
Republican Party of India	RPI	1
United Goans (Sequiera Group)	UG(S)	1
Jana Kranti Dal	JKD	1
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	NC	1
Independents	-	35
Nominated Anglo-Indians	-	2

Women Members

State	Constituency	Name of Elected M.P.	Party affiliation
Andhra Pradesh	Bhadrachalam (ST)	B. Radhabai Ananda Rao		Indian National Congress
	Medak	Sangam Laxmi Bai
	Khammam	T. Lakshmi Kantamma
Bihar	Barh	Tarkeshwari Sinha
	Chatra	Vijaya Raje		Independent politician
	Dhanbad	Rani Lalita Rajya Laxmi
	Palamau (SC)	Kamla Kumari		Indian National Congress
Gujrat	Amreli	Jayaben Shah
Kerala	Ambalapuzha	Suseela Gopalan		Communist Party of India
Madhya Pradesh	Guna	Vijaya Raje Scindia		Swatantra Party
	Shahdol (ST)	Girja Kumari		Indian National Congress
	Raigarh (ST)	Rajni Devi
	Janjgir	Minimata Agam Dass Guru
	Rajnandgaon	Padmawati Devi
Madras	Karur	C. Muthuswamy Gounder		Swatantra Party
Maharashtra	Ratnagiri	Sharda Mukherjee		Indian National Congress
	Hatkanangale	Maharani Vijayamala Bhonsle		Peasants and Workers Party of India
Punjab	Patiala	Mohinder Kaur		Indian National Congress
	Sangrur	Nirlep Kaur		Akali Dal – Sant Fateh Singh
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Gayatri Devi		Swatantra Party
Uttar Pradesh	Aonla	Savitri Shyam		Indian National Congress
	Mohanlalganj (SC)	Ganga Devi
	Rae Bareli	Indira Nehru Gandhi
	Kaiserganj	Shakuntala Nayar		Bharatiya Jan Sangh
	Gonda	Sucheta Kriplani		Indian National Congress
	Phulpur	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
	Bilhaur	Sushila Rohatgi
West Bengal	Darjeeling	Maitreyee Bose		Independent politician
	Malda	Uma Roy		Indian National Congress

For the first time in India's parliamentary history, a couple was elected to the Lok Sabha - A. K. Gopalan (CPI MP from Palghat) & his wife Suseela (CPI MP from Ambalapuzha).

References

1. "RAJYA SABHA STATISTICAL INFORMATION (1952-2013)" (PDF). Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
2. "Fourth Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2010.