The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elections, all across India, were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the

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. Counting started officially on the morning of 23 May 2019 and the results were declared on the same day.

Om Birla Om Birla (born 23 November 1962) is an Indian politician, agriculturist and social worker who is the 17th and current Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He serves as a Member of Parliament from Kota-Bundi constituency in Rajasthan. Prior to parliame ...

was elected as

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. As no party holds 10% of the seats to secure the position of Leader of Opposition, currently, there is no leader of opposition. However,

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician serving as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore. He is also the current president of West Bengal Prades ...

is the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, which is the second largest party. 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 ; average assets were . Around 39 percent of members are professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.

Members

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: Vacant * Leader of the House:

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: Mallikarjun Khadge *

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: Utpal Kumar Singh

Party-wise distribution of seats

Statistics

The 17th Lok Sabha has the highest ever number of women politicians with a total of 78 which is nearly 14%. 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 Chandrani Murmu (born 16 June 1993) is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Keonjhar, Odisha in the 2019 Indian general election as a member of the Biju Janata Dal. Chandrani Murm ...

of BJD from Keonjhar constituency became the youngest member at the age of 25 years, 11 months and nine days and

Shafiqur Rahman Barq Shafiqur Rahman Barq (born 11 July 1930) is an Indian politician belonging to the Samajwadi Party. He has been elected to Lok Sabha at various times from Moradabad as Samajwadi Party candidate and Sambhal, most recently in 2019. Career He ...

of SP from Sambhal constituency became the oldest member at the age of 89. 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. BJP members

Maneka Gandhi Maneka Sanjay Gandhi (also spelled Menaka; ''née'' Anand) (born 26 August 1956) is an Indian politician, animal rights activist, and environmentalist. She is a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of ...

from Sultanpur constituency and

Santosh Gangwar Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is an Indian politician and the former Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Government of India. He is a Member of Parliament (16th Lok Sabha), f ...

from Bareilly constituency has been elected to Lok Sabha for the eighth time. Religion-wise, 90.4% members are Hindus and 5.2% are Muslims, with the rest, nearly 4%, being Sikhs, Christians and other minorities. According to the NGO

Association for Democratic Reforms History ADR came into existence in 1999 when a group of Professors from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and Bangalore filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) with the Delhi High Court regarding the disclosure of the crimi ...

(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. Financially, the number of members who are crorepati (i.e. with declared assets more than ) are 475. Members with more than assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was and

Nakul Nath Nakul Kamal Nath (born 21 June 1974) is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Indian National Con ...

of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly . Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with and

D. K. Suresh Doddaalahalli Kempegowda Suresh a.k.a. ''D. K. Suresh'' is an Indian member of Parliament of the 17th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Bangalore Rural constituency of Karnataka and is a member of the Indian National Congress political p ...

from Bangalore Rural constituency with ; both being of Congress party. 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.

Bills

As of November 2021, during the tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha, 12% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination.

Members

Party-wise distribution of seats

Statistics

Bills

See also

Footnotes

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