Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Parliament of India. As of 2024, there have been eighteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India. The Constitution limits the Lok Sabha to a maximum of 552 members. This includes no more than 20 members representing people from the Union Territories. The Lok Sabha speaker is elected from its members.

If this happens, the term may be extended for one year. It can be extended more than one time. The 18th and current Lok Sabha was formed in June 2024.

The Lok Sabha meets at the Lok Sabha Chambers, in Sansad Bhavan, Sansad Marg, in New Delhi.

The Lok Sabha members are elected for a term of five years. The president may dissolve the Lok Sabha. During an emergency the term may be extended for one year.
Political groups

 History 
+Session of Lok Sabha commenced on DateSession No.DateFirst13 May 1952SecondApril 1957ThirdApril 1962FourthMarch 1967FifthMarch 1971SixthMarch 1977SeventhJanuary 1980EighthDecember 1984NinthDecember 1989TenthJune 1991EleventhMay 1996TwelfthMarch 1998ThirteenthOctober 1999FourteenthMay 2004FifteenthMay 2009SixteenthMay 2014SeventeenthMay 2019EighteenthJune 2024

During the British colonial period, the office of the Secretary of State for India (along with the Council of India) was the authority through whom the British Parliament exercised its rule in the Indian sub-continent. The Viceroy of India was created, along with an Executive Council, in India, which consisted of high officials of the British government. The Indian Councils Act 1861 provided for a Legislative Council consisting of the members of the Executive Council and non-official members; and the Indian Councils Act 1892 established legislatures in each of the provinces of British India. These Acts may have increased the Indian representation in government, but the councils' power remained limited, and the electorate also remained very small. The participation of Indians in the administration increased after the passage of the Indian Councils Act 1909 and the Government of India Act 1919. 

The Indian Independence Act was passed on July 18, 1947, and as a result British India was to be divided into India and Pakistan upon independence on August 15, 1947. They were to be dominions (India, Pakistan) under the Crown until they had enacted their own constitutions.

The Constituent Assembly was divided into two for the separate nations, with each new Assembly having sovereign powers transferred to it for the respective dominion.

India became a republic on January 26, 1950.

 Structure 
+StateNumber of SeatsAndhra Pradesh42Arunachal Pradesh2Assam14Bengal, West42Bihar40Chhattisgarh11Goa2Gujarat26Haryana10Himachal Pradesh4Jammu and Kashmir6Jharkhand14Karnataka28Kerala20Madhya Pradesh29Maharashtra48Manipur2Meghalaya2Mizoram1Nagaland1Odisha21Punjab13Rajasthan25Sikkim1Tamil Nadu39Tripura2Uttarakhand5Uttar Pradesh80TerritoiriesAndaman and Nicobar Islands1Chandigarh1Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu2Delhi7Lakshadweep1Puducherry1TOTAL543

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