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With the members of the newly elected 18th Lok Sabha declared on June 4, data compiled by PRS Legislative Research shows how the composition of the Lower House has changed from 2019.
While taking oath in the Lok Sabha earlier this week, Awadhesh Prasad, the newly-elected Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad, invoked ‘Veerangana’ Uda Devi and ‘Maharaja’ Bijli Pasi, two prominent personalities of the Pasi (Dalit) community. Prasad himself belongs to the Pasi community, who number over three lakh in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency and who are believed to have voted en masse to elect him over his BJP opponent.
KICKING OFF proceedings in the new Parliament with a multi-pronged attack on the Congress over the Emergency, the BJP has said that even its own allies are not on the same page on the issue.
Addressing both Houses of Parliament in the first session after the recent Lok Sabha polls, President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday invoked the Emergency of 1975, calling it “the biggest and darkest chapter of direct attack on the Constitution”.
President Droupadi Murmu will address the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Thursday, where she is expected to unveil the priorities of the newly elected government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
After 10 years, the Lok Sabha will have a Leader of the Opposition, with the Congress winning 99 seats in the recent general elections. On Tuesday evening, following a meeting with INDIA bloc leaders at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence, the Congress named senior leader and MP Rahul Gandhi for the post.
Prime Minister on Wednesday said that Om Birla’s experience of being a Speaker in the previous term would help him guide the country further in his second term. Birla, the (MP) from Kota, Rajasthan, was elected as Speaker of 18th Lok Sabha earlier in the day.
With the Opposition’s increased strength in Lok Sabha, its members are hoping to get the post of Deputy Speaker. There was no Deputy Speaker for the entire duration of the 17th Lok Sabha (2019-24). M Thambi Durai of the AIADMK, a BJP ally at the time, was Deputy Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-19).
With the INDIA bloc nominating the Congress’s Kodikunnil Suresh, the MP from Kerala’s Mavelikkara, the stage is set for a rare contest for the Lok Sabha Speaker’s post. The ruling NDA earlier renominated BJP MP Om Birla for Speaker.