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=Sessions of Lok Sabha=
 
…and the month of their commencement
 
 
First 13 May 1952
 
 
Second April 1957
 
 
Third April 1962
 
 
Fourth March 1967
 
 
Fifth March 1971
 
 
Sixth March 1977
 
 
Seventh January 1980
 
 
Eighth December 1984
 
 
Ninth December 1989
 
 
Tenth June 1991
 
 
Eleventh May 1996
 
 
Twelfth March 1998
 
 
Thirteenth October 1999
 
 
Fourteenth May 2004
 
 
Fifteenth May 2009
 
 
Sixteenth May 2014
 
 
=Age of MPs, average=
 
==1952- 2014==
 
[[File: Age of MPs, average.jpg|The average Age of Indian MPs,  presumably on the date of their swearing-in, 1952- 2014<br/> Adapted from [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F04%2F04&entity=Ar01906&sk=D64C38E8&mode=text '' The Times of India ''] |frame|500px]]
 
See graphic, 'The average Age of Indian MPs,  presumably on the date of their swearing-in, 1952- 2014'
 
 
=Changes over the years=
 
==1952- 2014/ 19: Changes in the Lok Sabha==
 
[[File: 1952- 2014- 19- Changes in the Lok Sabha’s; Average age; Education levels; Gender distribution; Hours of work done.jpg|1952- 2014/ 19: Changes in the Lok Sabha’s<br/> Average age <br/> Education levels <br/> Gender distribution <br/> Hours of work done <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F03%2F17&entity=Ar01416&sk=D708FEDE&mode=image  March 17, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
''1952- 2014/ 19: Changes in the Lok Sabha’s<br/> Average age <br/> Education levels <br/> Gender distribution <br/> Hours of work done''
 
 
 
==2012: People per MP ratio==
 
[[File: People per MP ratio, India and some other regions of the world, as in 2012.jpg|People per MP ratio, India and some other regions of the world, as in 2012 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-india-needs-2000-mps-instead-of-543-it-will-elect/articleshow/68466493.cms  March 19, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
''People per MP ratio, India and some other regions of the world, as in 2012''
 
 
 
==2014: Biggest/ smallest constituencies==
 
[[File: Biggest constituencies in 2014.jpg|Biggest constituencies in 2014 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-india-needs-2000-mps-instead-of-543-it-will-elect/articleshow/68466493.cms  March 19, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
[[File: Smallest constituencies in 2014.jpg|Smallest constituencies in 2014 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-india-needs-2000-mps-instead-of-543-it-will-elect/articleshow/68466493.cms  March 19, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphics''':
 
 
''Biggest constituencies in 2014''
 
 
''Smallest constituencies in 2014''
 
 
 
==2019- 2071 (estimate): representation, state-wise==
 
[[File: If population decided seats, this is how states would be represented, current seats, 2019 estimate, 2071 estimate, gain-loss 2071, state-wise.jpg|If population decided seats, this is how states would be represented: <br/> Current seats as in March 20, 2019; <br/>  2019 estimate; <br/> 2071 estimate; <br/> Gain/Loss 2071; <br/> state-wise <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-india-needs-2000-mps-instead-of-543-it-will-elect/articleshow/68466493.cms  March 19, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
''If population decided seats, this is how states would be represented: <br/> Current seats as in March 20, 2019; <br/>  2019 estimate; <br/> 2071 estimate; <br/> Gain/Loss 2071; <br/> state-wise''
 
 
=The leader of the opposition=
 
==Requirements for being the ''Leader of Opposition''==
 
''' Cong can't get LoP post in LS: AG to Speaker '''
 
 
Dhananjay.Mahapatra @timesgroup.com 
 
New Delhi:
 
 
[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Cong-cant-get-LoP-post-in-LS-AG-26072014001081 The Times of India ] Jul 26 2014
 
 
In 2014, with just 44 seats, Congres had based its claim for the post of leader of opposition post in the Lok Sabha on the law relating to Salary and Allowances of Leader of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977 and the rules there under. The law provides the largest opposition party would get the post. Answering a query on this issue posed to him by the 2014 Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi referred to the rulings given by highly regarded parliamentarian G V Mavalankar, the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He said Mavalankar's directions were adopted to deny LoP status to any party during the period when Jawaharlal Nehru was the PM from 1947 to 1964.
 
 
According to Rohatgi, Mavalankar had ruled that to get the post in the Lok Sabha, an opposition party has to secure a minimum of 10% of the seats, that is it must have a strength of 55 MPs.
 
 
Rohatgi said Mavalankar had felt that the main opposition party's numbers must equal the quorum, which is 10% of the total strength, required for functioning of the House. Following Mavalankar's ruling, the Congres regimes under Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had decided not to give the LoP post to the then largest opposition party because they had failed to reach the 55 MP-mark in the Lok Sabha.
 
 
The Centre has highlighted direction 121 of `Directions to the Speaker' which provide that a party's strength must be one-tenth of the Lok Sabha to be recognized as a parliamentary party or group.
 
 
=No-confidence motions=
 
==1966-2018==
 
[[File: No-confidence motions moved against the government in the parliament, 1966-2018.jpg| No-confidence motions moved against the government in the parliament, 1966-2018 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F07%2F21&entity=Ar00100&sk=5FCB1356&mode=text  July 21, 2018: ''The Times of India''] |frame|500px]]
 
 
''' See graphic ''' :
 
 
''No-confidence motions moved against the government in the parliament, 1966-2018''
 
 
=Number of seats in the Lok Sabha=
 
==Number frozen in 1976==
 
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F03%2F16&entity=Ar01501&sk=F340B68F&mode=text  How 1976 seat freeze has altered LS representation, March 16, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
 
 
[[File: The number of seats each state would have had in 2019 (and likely number in 2071) if they had been punished for curbing the growth of their population and rewarded for letting their population multiply.jpg|The number of seats each state would have had in 2019 (and likely number in 2071) if they had been punished for curbing the growth of their population and rewarded for letting their population multiply. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F03%2F16&entity=Ar01501&sk=F340B68F&mode=text  How 1976 seat freeze has altered LS representation, March 16, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
 
''Move Was To Encourage Family Planning And Ensure States That Curbed Population Growth Didn’t Lose Out In Parliament''
 
 
Article 81 of India’s Constitution laid down that every state (and Union territory) will be allotted seats in the Lok Sabha in such a manner that the ratio of population to seats should be as equal as possible across states. If the letter and spirit of the original provision were to be implemented today, the composition of the Lok Sabha would change drastically with states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi gaining significantly and Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Telangana losing out (see graphic).
 
 
The reason this hasn’t happened is because in 1976, during the Emergency, the 42nd amendment Act decreed that the population to be taken into consideration for the next 25 years would be the number in the 1971 census. The rationale was that family planning was a national imperative and states would have little incentive to pursue it if success meant their share of political power would go down. The freeze on reapportioning seats between states and UTs was further extended by the 84th amendment Act in 2001 till 2026.
 
 
The result of this freeze is that the principle of “one man (or woman) one vote” has been diluted in India? At the time of the apportioning of seats based on the 1971 census, all big states had a Lok Sabha MP representing roughly 10 lakh people. The extent of the variation was from just over 10 lakh to about 10.6 lakh, hardly a huge disparity.
 
 
With the seats having remained unchanged but population growth having varied widely, today (based on 2016 mid-year population) the average MP in Rajasthan represents over 30 lakh people while the one in Tamil Nadu or Kerala represents less than 18 lakh. But that has always been the case and is inevitable since even the tiniest UT cannot have less than one MP.
 
 
Prior to the 2008 delimitation, the situation was arguably worse with even voters within the same state not having the same weight. The most extreme extreme example of this was in Delhi, where the Chandni Chowk constituency had an electorate of just 3.4 lakh while Outer Delhi had ten times the number at 33.7 lakh.
 
 
Prior to the 2008 delimitation, the situation was arguably worse with even voters within the same state not having the same weight. The most extreme extreme example of this was in Delhi, where the Chandni Chowk constituency had an electorate of just 3.4 lakh while Outer Delhi had ten times the number at 33.7 lakh.
 
 
The same is reflected elsewhere. In 2014, the five smallest constituencies together had just under 8 lakh voters while the five largest had 1.2 crore voters, 15 times more than the smallest five.
 
 
Globally too, India tops the people per MP ratio with India’s 543 MPs serving 1.5 million people each, far higher than the global average of 145,880 persons represented by an MP. Though the number of voters have risen with population growth, the number of seats in Lok Sabha has not increased since 1977. As a result, an MP today represents more than four times the number of voters than what an MP did in 1951-52, when the first general elections were held.
 
 
=Percentage of women members in Lok Sabha=
 
==1952-2009==
 
'''Source''': PRS Legislative Research
 
 
[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/15th+Lok+Sabha:+Ladies+first/1/43183.html ''India Today'']
 
June 1, 2009
 
 
''' ''Ladies first'' '''
 
 
'''1952'''-4.4%
 
 
'''1957'''-4.5%
 
 
'''1962'''-6.7%
 
 
'''1967'''-5.8%
 
 
'''1971'''-4.9%
 
 
'''1977'''-3.8%
 
 
'''1980'''-5.7%
 
 
'''1985'''-7.9%
 
 
'''1989'''-5.2%
 
 
'''1991'''-7.6%
 
 
'''1996'''-7.4%
 
 
'''1998'''-8.1%
 
 
'''1999'''-9.2%
 
 
'''2004'''-8.7%
 
 
'''2009'''-10.7%
 
 
=Productivity=
 
==1952-2019==
 
[[File: The productivity of the 1st to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1952-2019.jpg|The productivity of the 1st to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1952-2019 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F02%2F14&entity=Ar00402&sk=B882A0A0&mode=image  February 14, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
''The productivity of the 1st to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1952-2019''
 
 
==1962-2019==
 
[[File: The productivity of the 3rd to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1962-2019.jpg| The productivity of the 3rd to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1962-2019 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/apa/timesofindia/SharedView.Article.aspx?href=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F05%2F24&id=Ar02707&sk=0911A802&viewMode=image  May 24, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
''' See graphic ''' :
 
 
'' The productivity of the 3rd to the 16th Lok Sabhas, i.e. 1962-2019 ''
 
 
==1999, 2009-2019==
 
[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
 
 
 
[[File: 16th and 17th Lok Sabhas- First time MPs, Women MPs.jpg|16th and 17th Lok Sabhas: <br/> First time MPs <br/> Women MPs <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
 
[[File: The Rajya and Lok Sabhas, 1999-2019- actual hours of a sitting as a % of scheduled hours.jpg|The Rajya and Lok Sabhas, 1999-2019- actual hours of a sitting as a % of scheduled hours <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
[[File: The Rajya and Lok Sabhas, 2009-2019- the number of bills passed.jpg|The Rajya and Lok Sabhas, 2009-2019- the number of bills passed <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
[[File: Time spent by activity (in hours), 2009-19.jpg|Time spent by activity (in hours), 2009-19 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
[[File: Time spent on activities by LS & RS, 2019.jpg|Time spent on activities by LS & RS, 2019 <br/> From: [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-this-budget-session-was-the-most-productive-in-decades/articleshow/70580766.cms  August 8, 2019: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
 
Why this budget session was the most productive in decades
 
 
NEW DELHI: This budget session was one of the busiest sessions in the past 20 years. Both houses spent nearly half their time on legislative business, passing 30 bills and working more than 70 hours extra. A look at how the session panned out.
 
 
''' ALMOST EVERY WOMAN MP PARTICIPATED THIS SESSION '''
 
 
 
''' LOK SABHA BREAKS RECORD FOR MOST HOURS WORKED IN LAST 20 HOURS '''
 
 
In this session, Lok Sabha spent 281 hrs, or about 135% of the time it was scheduled to work — the most extra time spent working since 2000. In the past 20 years, Lok Sabha has worked only 80% of the total scheduled work hours on average. On the other hand, Rajya Sabha spent 195 hours working, about 103% of the scheduled working hours.
 
 
''' MOST BILLS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES THIS SESSION IN PAST DECADE '''
 
 
This Parliament’s first session passed as many bills as the last seven sessions of the previous government. Indicative of the number of contentious bills passed, both houses required recorded or ballot paper votes to pass 14 bills. In most cases, a simple voice vote is enough to pass a bill 21% of this session’s LS bills were passed after a recorded vote and 23% for the RS. In the previous Lok Sabha, just 8% and 6% of LS and RS bill, respectively required recorded votes. No bill introduced in this session were referred to a Committee.
 
 
''' PARLIAMENT SPENT ALMOST HALF ITS TIME ON LEGISLATIVE MATTERS '''
 
 
While Lok Sabha spent 46% of it time on legislative business, that figure was 52%for Rajya Sabha. A whopping 36% of questions were answered orally in Lok Sabha, the most since 1999.
 
 
''' MANY KEY BILLS WERE PASSED NEAR THE END OF THE SESSION '''
 
 
Initially expected to end July 26, the Lok Sabha session was extended to August 7. Speaker Om Birla adjourned Lok Sabha a day early, calling this session “the most productive since 1952”.
 
 
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=Speakers of the Lok Sabha=
 
==The speakers: a table==
 
 
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  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>First <span
 
  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
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  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Ganesh <span class=SpellE>Vasudev</span> <span
 
  class=SpellE>Mavalankar</span></span></p>
 
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  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>5 May, 1952 – 27 February, 1956</span></p>
 
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  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
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  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>M. <span class=SpellE>Ananthasayanam</span> <span
 
  class=SpellE>Ayyangar</span></span></p>
 
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  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>8 March, 1956 –&nbsp; 10 May, 1957</span></p>
 
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  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
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  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>M. <span class=SpellE>Ananthasayanam</span> <span
 
  class=SpellE>Ayyangar</span></span></p>
 
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  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>11 May, 1957 –&nbsp; 16 April, 1962</span></p>
 
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  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>17 April, 1962 –&nbsp; 16 March, 1967</span></p>
 
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  <td width=153 valign=top style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
 
  mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fourth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Neelam</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <span class=SpellE>Sanjiva</span>
 
  Reddy</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>17 March, 1967 –&nbsp; 19 July, 1969</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5'>
 
  <td width=153 valign=top style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
 
  mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fourth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Gurdial</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Singh Dhillon</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>8 August, 1969 –&nbsp; 19 March, 1971</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:6'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fifth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Gurdial</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Singh Dhillon</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>22 March, 1971 –&nbsp; 1 December, 1975</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:7'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fifth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Bali Ram <span class=SpellE>Bhagat</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>5 January, 1976 –&nbsp; 25 March, 1977</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:8'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Sixth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Neelam</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <span class=SpellE>Sanjiva</span>
 
  Reddy</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>26 March, 1977 –&nbsp; 13 July, 1977</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:9'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Sixth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>K. S. <span class=SpellE>Hegde</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>21 July, 1977 –&nbsp; 21 January, 1980</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:10'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Seventh
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Bal Ram <span class=SpellE>Jakhar</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>22 January, 1980 –&nbsp; 15 January, 1985</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:11'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Eighth <span
 
  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>&nbsp;&nbsp; Bal Ram <span class=SpellE>Jakhar</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>16 January, 1985 –&nbsp; 18 December, 1989</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:12'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Ninth <span
 
  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Ravi Ray</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>19 December, 1989 –&nbsp; 9 July, 1991</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:13'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Tenth <span
 
  class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Shivraj</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> V. <span class=SpellE>Patil</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>10 July, 1991 –&nbsp; 22 May, 1996</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:14'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Eleventh
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>P. A. <span class=SpellE>Sangma</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>23 May, 1996 –&nbsp; 23 March, 1998 (FN)</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:15'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Twelfth
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>G. M. C. <span class=SpellE>Balayogi</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>24 March, 1998 –&nbsp; 20 October, 1999 (FN)</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:16'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Thirteenth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>G. M. C. <span class=SpellE>Balayogi</span></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>22 October, 1999 –&nbsp; 3 March, 2002</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:17'>
 
  <td valign=top style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
 
  padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Thirteenth <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Manohar Joshi</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>10 May, 2002 –&nbsp; 4 June, 2004</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:18'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fourteenth
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Somnath</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Chatterjee</span></p>
 
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  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>4 June, 2004 –&nbsp; 31 May, 2009</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:19'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fifteen
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Smt. <span class=SpellE>Meira</span> Kumar</span></p>
 
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  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>3 June, 2009 –&nbsp; 4 June,2014</span></p>
 
  </td>
 
</tr>
 
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:20;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'>
 
  <td width=153 style='width:115.05pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
 
  18.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
 
  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Sixteenth
 
  <span class=SpellE>Lok</span> Sabha</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'></span></p>
 
  </td>
 
  <td width=230 style='width:172.2pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
  solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'>
 
  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Smt.Sumitra</span></span><span
 
  style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
 
  "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Mahajan</span></p>
 
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  <td width=233 style='width:174.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:
 
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  <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
 
  text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
 
  font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
 
  mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>5 June 2014 - </span></p>
 
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==1952- 2014 repeated, with explanatory footnotes==
 
[[File:  The Polity1a.PNG |Speakers of the Lok Sabha, 1952- 2011|frame|500px]]
 
[[File:  The Polity2a.PNG | Speakers of the Lok Sabha: footnotes |frame|500px]]
 
Sixteenth Lok Sabha Smt.Sumitra Mahajan 5 June 2014 -
 
 
 
= Suspension of members (MPs)=
 
==2005-19==
 
[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F03%2F06&entity=Ar01822&sk=71835B95&mode=text  Mohua Chatterjee, Pepper sprays to flying shawl: A history of LS pandemonium, March 6, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
 
 
Lok Sabha has witnessed suspension of members for unruly behaviour on many past occasions.
 
 
Then Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had suspended 45 members on January 2, 2019 for the rest of the session after a ruckus. She first suspended 24 ADMK members, followed by another batch of 21, which included MPs from ADMK, TDP and an unattached YSRCP member.
 
While the ADMK members were protesting against a proposed dam over the Cauvery river, the Andhra MPs were demanding special status for their state.
 
 
On February 12, 2014, Meira Kumar had suspended 18 Andhra MPs for the rest of the Budget session after supporters and opponents of Telangana sprayed pepper in the House and indulged in fisticuffs.
 
 
In the 14th Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee had stopped short of suspending Mamata Banerjee, then a TMC MP, in August 2005 when she threw a sheaf of papers at the Speaker’s chair, occupied by the then deputy speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal at that time. She then sent her resignation to the deputy Speaker and walked out.
 
 
Chatterjee turned down the resignation. He said he wanted Banerjee to return and act according to her conscience. He didn’t initiate action. Banerjee’s unruly act came after Atwal informed her that the Speaker had disallowed her notice to raise the subject of illegal Bangladeshi migration. Banerjee had earlier thrown her shawl at then Speaker Purno Sangma.
 
 
 
==2020 March==
 
[[File: The seven Congress Lok Sabha members who were ‘suspended’ for the rest of the session..jpg|The seven Congress Lok Sabha members who were ‘suspended’ for the rest of the session. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F03%2F06&entity=Ar01812&sk=72B50BA9&mode=text  March 6, 2020: ''The Times of India'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
'' The seven Congress Lok Sabha members who were ‘suspended’ for the rest of the session. ''
 
 
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=Vote margins=
 
==1962- 2014/ Closest and widest win margins==
 
[[File: The table shows the closest and widest win margins in Lok Sabha elections in terms of vote percentage, 1962-2014.jpg|The table shows the closest and widest win margins in Lok Sabha elections in terms of vote percentage, 1962-2014 <br/> From: [https://epaper.thehindu.com/Home/ShareImage?Pictureid=G1K5KBTON.1&fbclid=IwAR0jMaHqgayqwQygnT4vJpwvPHmGr6oxoaByL-yG27cr2VrkYBhARddC-gc  March 25, 2019: ''The Hindu'']|frame|500px]]
 
 
 
'''See graphic''':
 
 
''The table shows the closest and widest win margins in Lok Sabha elections in terms of vote percentage, 1962-2014''
 
 
=See also=
 
[[The 15th Lok Sabha: 2009-14]]/ [[The 16th Lok Sabha (2014-19): MPs ]]  complete list of MPs / [[The 16th Lok Sabha (2014-19): trends ]]
 

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