17th Lok Sabha

The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election.[1] Elections, all across India, were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day.

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Overview
Legislative bodyIndian Parliament
Term24 May 2019 –
Election2019 Indian general election
GovernmentThird National Democratic Alliance Government
Sovereign
PresidentRam Nath Kovind
Vice PresidentMuppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu
House of People
Members543
Speaker of the HouseOm Birla
Leader of the HouseNarendra Modi
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Leader of the OppositionVacant (2019–present)
Party controlNational Democratic Alliance

Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the largest party in the Lok Sabha and formed the government. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the prime minister on 30 May 2019 in an event held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.[2]

Om Birla was elected as speaker of the house. No opposition party was able to get the minimum requirement (10% of seats) to claim the position of Leader of Opposition. The 17th Lok Sabha has the most women representatives, at 14 percent. 267 members are first-time MPs. 233 members (43 percent) have had criminal charges against them. 475 members have their declared assets to be more than ₹1 crore (US$140,000); average assets were ₹20.9 crore (US$2.9 million). Around 39 percent of members are professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.

Members
Main article: List of members of the 17th Lok Sabha
Party-wise seat distribution in the 17th Lok Sabha

Party-wise distribution of seats
Party wise distribution as declared in the results on 23 May 2019[1][lower-alpha 1]
PartyAbbr.SeatsLeader in Lok Sabha
Bharatiya Janata PartyBJP303Narendra Modi
Indian National CongressINC51Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury[8]
Dravida Munnetra KazhagamDMK24[lower-alpha 1]T. R. Baalu[9]
YSR Congress PartyYSRCP22P. V. Midhun Reddy[10]
All India Trinamool CongressAITC22Sudip Bandyopadhyay[11]
Shiv SenaSS18Vinayak Raut[12]
Janata Dal (United)JD(U)15Rajiv Ranjan Singh[13]
Biju Janata DalBJD12Pinaki Misra[14]
Bahujan Samaj PartyBSP10Kunwar Danish Ali (till July 2019)
Shyam Singh Yadav[lower-alpha 2][16]
Telangana Rashtra SamithiTRS9Nama Nageswara Rao[17]
Lok Janshakti PartyLJP6Chirag Paswan
Nationalist Congress PartyNCP5Supriya Sule
Samajwadi PartySP5Mulayam Singh Yadav
Communist Party of India (Marxist)CPI(M)3A. M. Ariff
Indian Union Muslim LeagueIUML3P. K. Kunhalikutty
Jammu & Kashmir National ConferenceJKNC3Farooq Abdullah
Telugu Desam PartyTDP3Galla Jayadev
Communist Party of IndiaCPI2K. Subbarayan
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul MuslimeenAIMIM2Asaduddin Owaisi
Shiromani Akali DalSAD2Sukhbir Singh Badal
Apna Dal (Sonelal)AD(S)2Anupriya Patel
Janata Dal (Secular)JD(S)1Prajwal Revanna
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra KazhagamAIADMK1P. Raveendranath Kumar
Jharkhand Mukti MorchaJMM1Vijay Hansdak
All Jharkhand Students UnionAJSU1Chandra Prakash Choudhary
Nationalist Democratic Progressive PartyNDPP1Tokheho Yepthomi
National Peoples PartyNPP1Agatha Sangma
Naga People's FrontNPF1Lorho S. Pfoze
Revolutionary Socialist PartyRSP1N. K. Premachandran
Kerala Congress (Mani)KC(M)1Thomas Chazhikadan
Mizo National FrontMNF1C. Lalrosanga
Aam Aadmi PartyAAP1Bhagwant Mann
Sikkim Krantikari MorchaSKM1Indra Hang Subba
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal KatchiVCK1Thirumavalavan
All India United Democratic FrontAIUDF1Badruddin Ajmal
Rashtriya Loktantrik PartyRLP1Hanuman Beniwal
IndependentsIND.4 –
TOTAL543 –
VacantVAC.2 –

Statistics
Party-wise members with criminal charges[18]
PartyElected
members		Members with
criminal charges		Percent
BJP30311639%
INC522957%
DMK241043%
JD(U)161381%
AITC22941%

The 17th Lok Sabha has the highest ever number of women politicians with a total of 78 which is nearly 14%.[19] The earlier Lok Sabha had 62 women MPs. The average age of 17th Lok Sabha is noted to be 54 years and 12% of MPs are below the age of 40. Chandrani Murmu of BJD from Keonjhar constituency became the youngest member at the age of 25 years, 11 months and nine days and Shafiqur Rahman Barq of SP from Sambhal constituency became the oldest member at the age of 86.[20][21] Education-wise, 43% MPs have graduate-level education, 25% are post-graduates and 4% of members have doctorates in various subjects. Of the total strength, 300 members have been elected as member for the first time and 197 members have been elected second time consecutively i.e. they were a member in the 16th Lok Sabha as well.[19] BJP members Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur constituency and Santosh Gangwar from Bareilly constituency has been elected to Lok Sabha for the eighth time.[22] Religion-wise, 90.4% members are Hindus and 5.2% are Muslims, with the rest, nearly 4%, being Sikhs, Christians and other minorities.[22]

According to the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 233 members (i.e. 43%) have criminal charges against them. Of these, nearly 29% of the cases are rape, murder, attempted murder, or crime against women. Congress MP Dean Kuriakose, of the Idukki constituency in Kerala, has 204 criminal cases.[18]

Financially, the number of members who are crorepati (i.e. with declared assets more than ₹1 crore (US$140,000)) are 475. Members with more than ₹5 crore (US$700,000) assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was ₹20.9 crore (US$2.9 million) and Nakul Nath of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly ₹660 crore (US$93 million).[23] Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with ₹417 crore (US$58 million) and D. K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural constituency with ₹338 crore (US$47 million); both being of Congress party.[24]

Professionally, around 39% noted to be politicians or involved in social work. This is followed by 38% of members declaring as agriculturists and 23% as businessmen.[25]

By-elections and vacancies

After the May 2019 results, various members have resigned or died in office. Following is the list of seats that were vacated and later filled after by-elections were held.[26]

State Constituency Elected M.P. Party affiliation
Bihar Samastipur Ram Chandra Paswan
(died on 21 July 2019)[27]		 Lok Janshakti Party
Prince Raj Lok Janshakti Party
Maharashtra Satara Udayanraje Bhosale
(resigned on 14 September 2019)[28]		 Nationalist Congress Party
Shriniwas Patil Nationalist Congress Party
Bihar Valmiki Nagar Baidyanath Prasad Mahto
(died on 28 February 2020)		 Janata Dal (United)
Sunil Kumar Janata Dal (United)
Tamil Nadu Kanyakumari H. Vasanthakumar
(died on 28 August 2020)		 Indian National Congress
Vacant
Karnataka Belgaum Suresh Angadi
(died on 23 September 2020)		 Bharatiya Janata Party
Vacant
Andhra Pradesh Tirupati Balli Durga Prasad Rao
(died on 16 September 2020)		 YSR Congress Party
Vacant

See also

Footnotes
  1. Elections in Vellore constituency were held later in August 2019 and won by DMK. The same has been included in table making their total to 24.[7]
  2. Kunwar Danish Ali was removed as Leader of House and replaced with Shyam Singh Yadav after Ali went against the party's decision to support revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in Lok Sabha.[15]

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