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17 unusual facts about Lok Sabha


Anandpur Resolution

However in 1971, Akali Dal was able to capture only one out of 13 Lok Sabha seats, and in the Punjab Assembly elections of March 1972, the Akalis won only 24 seats out of 117 seats.

Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha

Through ACMS the party is able to wield significant voters' support in five Lok Sabha constituencies; Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Mangaldoi and Lakhimpur (these areas also correspond to roughly half of the Vidhan Sabha seats of Assam).

Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union

The national president of BKMU and Lok Sabha MP from Punjab Bhan Singh Bhaura, died on January 3, 2004.

Bijapur Taluka

For the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha, Bijapur Taluka participates in the Bijapur constituency.

Chandrakar /chandraker

Purushottam Lal Kaushik (Chandrakar), Ex MLA Mahasamund, Ex Member of Lok Sabha from the Raipur and Durg Constituencies, Ex Central Minister.

Member of the Lok Sabha from the Durg Constituency and the only active imaginator of the Chhattisgarh State.

Gurdial Singh Dhillon

Dhillon served two terms as Speaker of Lok Sabha (1969–71 and 1971–75) and was Minister of Agriculture in the Indian Government (1986–1988).

Harkishan Singh Surjeet

Many times, including after the 2004 Lok Sabha election and during the 1996-1998 United Front government, his role has been that of a cunning king-maker in parliamentary politics, mending and assembling broad coalitions.

Hindustan Cables

On 17 August 2006 there was a debate in Lok Sabha on revival of HCL, whose employees were not being paid their salaries.

K. Santhanam

He stood as a Congress candidate for the House of the People from Mayuram in Tanjore district, but lost to a Communist.

Keshav Rao Koratkar

His son Shri Vidyalankar V. K. Koratkar is also Member of Hyderabad and Bombay Legislature and Lok Sabha.

Kodambakkam Bridge

Choked by heavy traffic, the construction of a bridge was first proposed in the Lok Sabha in the late 1950s.

Lok Sabha TV

The channel broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) while Rajya Sabha TV covers the sessions of the Rajya Sabha (upper house of Parliament).

Mohamed Ayub

After the good performance of party's Lok Sabha 2009 candidate from Sant Kabir Nagar, Dr Ayub won Khalilabad assembly seat in 2012 by 5392 votes by his rival Mashoor Alam (Bahujan Samaj Party).

Politics of Karnataka

Karnataka consists of 28 parliamentary constituencies from which 28 members of parliament get elected to the Lok Sabha.

Sansad Ratna Award

Since there was no Award in India to honour the top performing Indian Parliamentarians, the Prime Point Foundation jointly with the ezine PR-e-Sense decided to honour such top performing Lok Sabha Members, based on their participation in debates, raising questions, introducing Private Members Bills and Attendance.

Sansad Ratna Award is a National Award launched in 2010 by the Prime Point Foundation and e-magazine PR-e-Sense to honour the top performing members of the Indian Lok Sabha.


Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi

The party leader is Hitendra Thakur, a former Independent member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, Baliram Sukur Jadhav of the BVA, backed by Hitendra Thakur, was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 and declared unconditional support to the UPA government.

Elections in Gujarat

Elections in Gujarat are conducted since 1962 to elect the members of Gujarat Vidhan Sabha and for the members of Lok Sabha.

Harish Kumar Gangawar

Shri Harish Kumar Gangawar was Member of Parliament in the seventh Lok Sabha from Pilibhit Constituency elected in 1980 on Indian National Congress ticket.

Indian Union Muslim League

In the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 the party won two Parliament seats, E. Ahamed from Kerala and K. M. Kader Mohideen from Tamil Nadu (elected as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Vellore).

Jat Mahasabha

The Jat Mahasabha spearheaded the community's struggle for reservation in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections in 1999.

Kalpnath Rai

Shri Kalpnath Rai was a Rajya Sabha member from 1974–80, 1980–86, 1986–92 and represented Ghosi four times to the Lok Sabha.

Kumaramangalam estate

His son, Mohan Kumaramangalam, daughter Parvathi Krishnan and grandson Rangarajan Kumaramangalam have all served as members of the upper house of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha.

Liberhan Commission

Claiming that the UPA government did not intend to table the full report as it indicts the then Congress government of P V Narasimha Rao, Deputy Leader of BJP in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said the Home Ministry leaked the report to divert attention from the issues being raised by a united opposition.Recently the BJP has been raising the issue of rising prices of essential commodities.

Prabhash Joshi

He was a popular television commentator and mainly invited for his views and comments on national politics during the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Parliament of India) or Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly of an Indian state) elections.

Pradeep Kumar Majhi

He created history as the first-timer young Lok Sabha Member of Parliament who asked 501 questions, more than anybody else in first two years stint by the statistics made by prominent The Week magazine.

Sebastian Paul

Dr. Sebastain Paul,(educated at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala)made his electoral debut in the 1997 Lok Sabha byelection in Ernakulam (Lok Sabha Constituency) when he defeated Antony Isaac of the INC.

Smriti Irani

The party gave her a ticket to 14th Lok Sabha elections in the year 2004 from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi where she was fielded against veteran political leader Kapil Sibal of Indian National Congress.

Sriballav Panigrahi

He was thrice elected as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from the Deogarh Parliamentary Constituency (1984, 1991 & 1996) and was also a Member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly for two terms (1971 & 1974).

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In India, she served as governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian Lok Sabha from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency from 1964 to 1968.