15th Lok Sabha

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Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.^[1]

The government introduced a total of 222 Bills (apart from Finance and Appropriations Bills) in the 15th Lok Sabha. A total of 165 Bills were by passed by the House, including bills introduced in previous Lok Sabhas. According to data from PRS Legislative Research, if productivity was measured as the time that the House functioned as a proportion of the time they actually sat, the 15th Lok Sabha is the least productive in history. Productivity further decreases when measured in terms of the number of hours the House was originally scheduled to sit for.^[2]

Important members

• Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar
• Deputy Speaker: M.Thambidurai, AIADMK, Karur, Tamil Nadu
• Leader of the House: Sushil Kumar Shinde, Indian National Congress, Solapur, Maharashtra

Sonia Gandhi, Indian National Congress, Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh

• Leader of the Opposition: Sushma Swaraj, Bharatiya Janata Party, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
• Secretary General:
  • P.D.T. Achary^[3]
  • T. K. Viswanathan

Number of members by alliance in Lok Sabha

Seats of the 15th Lok Sabha

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha by political party and alliance:^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

List of members by political party

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag	Number of MPs	Leader in Loksabha
1	Indian National Congress (INC)		222	Sushil Kumar Shinde/Sonia Gandhi
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		112	Sushma Swaraj
3	Samajwadi Party (SP)		21	Mulayam Singh Yadav
4	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		21	Dara Singh Chauhan
5	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))		19	Ram Sundar Das
6	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		18	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		18	T R Balu
8	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		16	Basudeb Acharia
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		14	Arjun Charan Sethi
10	Shiv Sena (SS)		10	Anant Geete
11	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)		9	M. Thambidurai
12	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		8	Sharad Pawar
13	Independent (Ind.)		7
14	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)		6	Nama Nageswara Rao
15	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		5
16	Communist Party of India (CPI)		4	Gurudas Dasgupta
17	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)		4	Rattan Singh Ajnala
18	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		3
19	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		3
20	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		2	Narahari Mahato
21	Muslim League Kerala State Committee (MLKSC)		2	E Ahamed
22	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)		2
23	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM(P))		2	Babu Lal Marandi
24	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)		2
25	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)		2	K. Chandrasekhar Rao
26	YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)		2	Jagan Mohan Reddy
27	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1	Asaduddin Owaisi
28	All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)		1	Badruddin Ajmal
29	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)		1	Joseph Toppo
30	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA)		1	Baliram Sukur Jadhav
31	Bodoland People's Front (BPF)		1	Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary
32	Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC(BL))		1	Kuldeep Bishnoi
33	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))		1
34	Kerala Congress (Mani) (KC(M))		1	Jose K Mani
35	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)		1	A. Ganeshamurthi
36	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)		1	Prem Das Rai
37	Swabhimani Paksha (SWP)		1	Raju Shetti
38	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK)		1	Thol. Thirumavalavan
-	Vacant Constituencies		22[12]	-

Cabinet

United Progressive Alliance Cabinet by party

Source: Various news organisations^{[13][14][15][16]}

United Progressive Alliance cabinet by states

• MoS (I) - Ministers of State with Independent charge

Related members

Members from same family elected in 15th Lok Sabha:

• Mother - Son
  • Sonia Gandhi - Rahul Gandhi
  • Maneka Gandhi - Varun Gandhi
• Father - Son
  • Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary
  • H. D. Deve Gowda - H. D. Kumaraswamy
  • Sisir Adhikari - Suvendu Adhikari
• Father - Daughter
  • Sharad Pawar - Supriya Sule
• Father-in-law - Son-in-law
  • Farooq Abdullah - Sachin Pilot
• Father-in-law - Daughter-in-law
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav - Dimple Yadav

By-Elections

• On November 2009, Raj Babbar of Indian National Congress got elected from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Seat was vacant as Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party resigned from this seat keeping the Kannauj Seat as he had contested from both and had to drop one seat.^[19]
• On 13 May 2011, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR Congress got elected from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He resigned his seat, when he resigned from Indian National Congress. He contested that seat again won by 545,000 votes.
• Elections were held on 13 October 2011 for the Hissar Lok Sabha seat due to the death of Bhajan Lal. The HJC-BJP alliance, represented by Kuldeep Bishnoi s/o Bhajan Lal, won the election.
• On 3 May 2012, Akhilesh Yadav resigned from the Kannauj seat, to serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after Samajwadi Party won Assembly Elections.^[20] His wife, Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the seat in the bye-elections.^[21]
• On 13 October 2012 results of by-elections to Tehri Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttarakhand and Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal were declared. The incumbent MP of Tehri Vijay Bahuguna had resigned upon being elected to the Uttarakhand Legislative assembly and becoming Chief Minister, while the MP from Jangipur, Pranab Mukherjee, had ceased to be an MP upon election as the President of India, thus necessitating the by-elections. In Tehri, Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah of BJP won the seat while Abhijit Mukherjee (son of Pranab Mukherjee) retained the Jangipur seat as Congress nominee.

References

External links

• Lok Sabha website
• List of winning candidates published by election commission of india on 17 May 2009.
• Tracking activity of MPs in Parliament

Further reading

• (April 8, 2015)The Hindu"A legislative history of the 15th Lok Sabha" -

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