The Lok Sabha,also known as 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 Parliament House,New Delhi.
The Parliament of India or Indian Parliament,is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. The president of the Republic of India,in their role as head of the legislature,has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve the Lok Sabha,but they can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the prime minister and the Union Council of Ministers.
Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Maharashtra twice from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 26 June 1988.
Ahmedbhai Muhamedbhai Patel,also known as Ahmed Patel,was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician. He is a five-term Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was elected as the Member of the Lok Sabha from Rohtak in 2024. He was also a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Haryana. He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee.
Shyam Nandan Mishra was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar. He was Member of Parliament for many years in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Initially a member of the Indian National Congress,he was later Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha as a Congress (O) leader,and then a Janata Party MP and Minister for External Affairs in Charan Singh's government. He was imprisoned both during the Quit India Movement and the Emergency.
Shobhana Bhartia is an Indian businesswoman. She is the chairperson and editorial director of the HT Media,one of India's largest newspapers and media houses,which she inherited from her father. She has also recently taken charge as the Chancellor BITS School of Management and Pro-Chancellor of BITS-Pilani which was founded by her grandfather G. D. Birla and is the current chairperson of Endeavor India.
Velu Narayanasamy is an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister of Puducherry from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of Indian National Congress political party.
Jagdambika Pal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 1 day in 1998. He is also currently a member of the Lok Sabha since 2009. In the 15th Lok Sabha he represented the Indian National Congress,until he resigned on 7 March 2014. He joined the BJP in 2014 and re-entered the Lok Sabha.
Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik is an Indian Politician and a member of the Parliament. He was the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in Government of India. He represented the Ramtek constituency of Maharashtra from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. He is also a General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. In 2022,Wasnik was elected member of the Rajya Sabha.
K. C. Venugopal is an Indian politician who is a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha elected from Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency and former member of parliament in Upper House and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He has been appointed a General Secretary of AICC and in charge of Karnataka on 29 April 2017. Later,he was given additional charge of the general secretary of the organization. He was the Minister of State for Civil Aviation &Ministry of Power in the UPA Government.
Rajeev Shankarrao Satav was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. At the time of his death,he was the member of the Rajya Sabha the upper house of Indian Parliament from Maharashtra.
Shyam Lal Yadav was an Indian politician. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and was Member of Parliament in the 8th Lok Sabha. Yadav represented the Varanasi constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
Gurdeep Singh Sappal is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress. He is a permanent member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC),which is the highest decision-making body of the party. He is also the administration in-charge at the All India Congress Committee (AICC),heading the party's administrative affairs.
Radhakishan Malviya was an Indian politician. He was a member of parliament representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as member of the Indian National Congress.
Shyam Dhar Mishra (1919–2001) was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament representing the Indian National Congress.
Mahanth Shyam Sunder Das was an Indian politician. He was elected to the lower House of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha from Sitamarhi,Bihar as a member of the Janata Party.
Harekrushna Mallick is an Indian politician from Odisha. Son of Prankrushna and Pranalata Mallick. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Janata Party.
Lingaraj Misra was an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament,representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha the upper house of India's Parliament as a member of the Indian National Congress.
The Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha is an elected Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha who leads the official opposition in the Upper House of the Parliament of India. The Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha is the parliamentary chairperson of the largest political party in the Rajya Sabha that is not in government.
