The Rajya Sabha,constitutionally the Council of States,is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. As of 2023,it has a maximum membership of 250,of which 238 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using single transferable votes through open ballots,while the president can appoint 12 members for their contributions to art,literature,science,and social services. The total allowed capacity is 250 according to article 80 of the Indian Constitution. The current potential seating capacity of the Rajya Sabha is 245,after the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act,2019,the seats came down to 245. The maximum seats of 250 members can be filled up at the discretion and requirements of the house of Rajya Sabha.
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 Parliament House,New Delhi.
Uma Bharti is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. She became involved with the Bharatiya Janata Party at a young age,unsuccessfully contesting her first parliamentary elections in 1984. In 1989,she successfully contested the Khajuraho seat,and retained it in elections conducted in 1991,1996 and 1998. In 1999,she switched constituencies and won the Bhopal seat.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician,who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries,which now known as Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises. She is currently one of the national vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A member of the Scindia family,she is also the matriarch of the Bamraulia family of Dholpur.
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi is an Indian politician,animal rights activist,and environmentalist. She is a member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is the widow of Indian politician Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments,most recently in Narendra Modi's government from May 2014 to May 2019.
The speaker of the Lok Sabha is the presiding officer and the highest authority 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.
Meira Kumar is an Indian politician and former diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress,she was the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment from 2004 to 2009,the Minister of Water Resources for a brief period in 2009. She served as the 15th Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014,being the first woman to hold the post. Kumar became just the second woman to be nominated for president of India by a major political block when she secured the United Progressive Alliance's nomination in 2017.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician,and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as 5th Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
Sumitra Mahajan is an Indian politician who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 2014 to 2019. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as the longest serving Woman Member of Parliament,
Selja Kumari is an Indian politician and former parliamentarian. A member of the Indian National Congress,she has been the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment and Tourism in the Government of India during Manmohan Singh's premiership.
Bhavana Gawali is a five-time Member of Parliament from Shivsena representing Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha. She is serving as a Member of Parliament for this constituency since 1999. She is currently the senior most Member of Parliament from Maharashtra(25 years in office) She has been a member of the 13th Lok Sabha,14th Lok Sabha,15th Lok Sabha,16th Lok Sabha and 17th Lok Sabha.
Susmita Bauri is an Indian politician and had been elected on a CPI(M) ticket from the Bishnupur in the Indian state of West Bengal to the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha.
Kanti Singh is a former Central Minister and National President of RJD Women Cell. She was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. She once represented the Arrah constituency of Bihar and is a national general secretary of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party. She was earlier elected to 11th and 13th Lok Sabha from Bikramganj constituency. She has held various portfolios in Central Government as Minister of Coal and Mines,Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises,Human Resources Development (HRD),Women Child and Development and Tourism and Culture.
Ratna De is an Indian politician who has been serving as Cabinet Minister of State for Environment Science,Technology and Bio-Technology in the Government of West Bengal. She was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha and 16th Lok Sabha from Hooghly,which includes the Singur area. She lost the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 to Locket Chatterjee,who was elected as a BJP candidate from the Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2021 election,she was elected as the MLA of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Pandua Vidhan Sabha Constituency.
V. Saroja is an Indian politician,medical doctor,social worker and former cabinet minister of Social Welfare &Nutritious Noon meal Programme from Tamil Nadu. She was elected twice to the 12th Lok Sabha and 13th Lok Sabha from Rasipuram constituency as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 1998,and 1999 elections.
Chandresh Kumari Katoch is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress party. She is a former Minister of Culture in India's central government. She was a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,representing Jodhpur constituency. Katoch was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in the Government of India on 28 October 2012,and was given the portfolio of the Ministry of Culture. She is daughter of Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Jodhpur and Maharani Krishna Kumari and is married into the royal family of Kangra with Raja Aditya Dev Chand Katoch,in Himachal Pradesh. She contested but lost in the 2014 Indian general election.
Bharti Dhirubhai Shiyal is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India from Bhavnagar,Gujarat as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She was earlier elected to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 2012 from Talaja in Bhavnagar district. She is consulting Ayurvedic practitioner by profession. She belong to Koli community of Gujarat. She is a National Vice President of the BJP.
A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha;the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of parliament of Lok Sabha are chosen by direct elections on the basis of the adult suffrage. The maximum permitted strength of members of parliament in the Lok Sabha is 550. This includes the maximum 530 members to represent the constituencies and states and up to 20 members to represent the union territories. Between 1952 and 2020,two seats were reserved for members of the Anglo-Indian community. The current elected strength of the Lok Sabha is 543. The party—or coalition of parties—having a majority in the Lok Sabha chooses the Prime Minister of India.
