The Lok Sabha,constitutionally the 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 an 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,New Delhi.
Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat,politician and freedom activist who served as the 12th prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses:the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. The president in his role as head of the legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve the Lok Sabha. The president can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the prime minister and his Union Council of Ministers.
Sanjay Nirupam is a former member of the Indian Parliament from Indian National Congress party,and former President of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee. Nirupam served two terms as an MP in the Rajya Sabha first as a member from the Shiv Sena and then from the Congress Party. He represented North Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency from 2009 to 2014.
Jaya Bachchan is an Indian actress and politician. She is a member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party,serving four terms since 2004. Known primarily for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema,she is noted for reinforcing a natural style of acting in both mainstream and "middle-of-the-road" cinema. She has received several accolades,including nine Filmfare Awards and the Padma Shri,the fourth-highest civilian honour awarded by the Government of India.
The speaker of the Lok Sabha is the presiding officer and the highest official of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India. The speaker is elected generally in the first meeting of the Lok Sabha following general elections. Serving for a term of five years,the speaker is chosen from sitting members of the Lok Sabha.
Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011,Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However,in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012,he has been divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.
Swapan Dasgupta is an Indian journalist and politician. He is influential within the Indian right wing,writing columns for leading English dailies espousing Hindu nationalism. He is a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of the Parliament of India. He had resigned as MP to contest the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election with a BJP ticket and lost to AITC candidate Ramendu Sinha. He was renominated as MP again on 1 June 2021.
Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and a senior Member of Parliament in his 32nd year as a Parliamentarian.
S. Tarlochan Singh is an Indian politician. He is a Member of the Parliament of India,representing Haryana. He served as Chairman National Commission for Minorities from 2003 to 2006,was member,National Human Rights Commission of India,Govt. of India,2003 to 2006. He served as Vice Chairman,National Commission for Minorities from 2000 to 2003.
Sanjay Rajaram Raut is an Indian politician from Shiv Sena party. He is a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the Executive Editor of Marathi newspaper Saamana,published by Uddhav Thackeray,the Shiv Sena party leader.
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi is an Indian politician,poet and journalist. She is a Member of Parliament,representing Thoothukkudi constituency in the Lok Sabha. She was also a former MP,represented Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha. Kanimozhi is the daughter of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi and his third wife Rajathi Ammal.
Ghulam Nabi Ratanpuri is a politician in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,India.
The Jan Lokpal Bill,also referred to as the Citizen's Ombudsman Bill,was a bill drawn up by civil society activists in India seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal,an independent body to investigate corruption cases and complete the investigation within a year for envisaging trial in the case getting completed within one year.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a committee of selected members of parliament,constituted by the Parliament of India,for the purpose of auditing the revenue and the expenditure of the Government of India. They check that parliament exercises over the executive stems from the basic principle that parliament embodies the will of the people. This committee along with the Estimates committee (EC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) are the three financial standing committees of the Parliament of India.
Rajya Sabha TV was an Indian public cable television network channel owned and operated by Rajya Sabha that covered the proceedings of Rajya Sabha. It has now been replaced by Sansad TV. Apart from telecasting live coverage of Rajya Sabha proceedings,RSTV also brought detailed analyses of parliamentary affairs. While focused on current national and international affairs,it provided a platform for knowledge-based programmes for the discerning viewer. The channel offered special attention to legislative business undertaken by the Parliament.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019,representing Gujarat. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.
Nawab Malik,is a politician,who served as the Minority Development,Aukaf,Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of Maharashtra and also the guardian minister of Gondia &Parbhani. He is the National Spokesperson and Mumbai President of the Nationalist Congress Party.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence (SCOD) is a department related standing committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament,constituted by the Parliament of India,for the purpose of legislative oversight of the defence policies and decision making of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). It is one of the 24 DRSCs that have been mandated with the onerous task of ministry specific oversight.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance (SCOF) is a department related standing committee (DRSC) constituted by the Parliament of India comprising selected members of parliament for the purpose of legislative oversight on the policies and decision making of the following four ministries:
- Ministry of Finance (MoF)
- Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- NITI Aayog
