The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. Parliament is composed of the President of India, the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President in his role as head of legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve Lok Sabha. However, in keeping with the Westminster system of government, the president can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers.
India's Parliament is bicameral; Rajya Sabha is the upper house and Lok Sabha is the lower house. The two houses meet in separate chambers of Sansad Bhavan, located on Sansad Marg (Parliament Street) in New Delhi. Those elected or nominated (by the President) to either house of Parliament are referred to as members of parliament or MPs. The MPs of Lok Sabha are directly elected by the Indian public voting in single member districts. MPs of Rajya Sabha are elected by the members of the State Legislative Assemblies, by proportional representation. The Parliament is composed of 790 MPs, who serve the largest democratic electorate in the world; 814.5million Indians registered to vote in the 2014 general elections.
Jaishankar called out Pakistan for “crimes and atrocities against minorities” during a parliament session, Indian media Hindustan Times reported ... The Indian minister also said New Delhi is making its ...
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... black armbands to their right hands to express their protest against this bill so that a message could reach the Parliament that all Indian Muslims are against this bill and it should not be passed.
Sources in the Congress said the party would scale up its offensive against what it called the \u201cgovernment\u2019s attempts to silence the Opposition\u201d inside and outside Parliament. Parliament ...
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India continues to preach about democracy on the world stage but fails to deliver it for its 200 million-strong Muslim population, with zero representation for them in the Indian parliament.
New Delhi, The Ministry of External Affairs has not hired any IAF, chartered or commercial civilian aircraft for Indian immigrants' repatriation from any country since 2020, the government informed Parliament on Thursday.
Actor and Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut has been posting candid glimpses of what happens after parliament sessions on her Instagram account lately ... to watch her biopic of the former IndianPrime Minister.
It was a historic first and a great honour, marking the pinnacle of my journey from the Indian parliament to the world parliamentary stage ... As more and more parliaments from around the world joined the ...