17th Lok Sabha

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

17th Lok Sabha
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The New Parliament House at New Delhi
Overview
Legislative body	Indian Parliament
Term	17 June 2019 – 5 June 2024
Election	2019 Indian general election
Government	Fourth National Democratic Alliance Government
Sovereign
President	Ram Nath Kovind Droupadi Murmu
Vice President	M. Venkaiah Naidu Jagdeep Dhankhar
House of the People
Members	543
Speaker of the House	Om Birla
Leader of the House	Narendra Modi
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Leader of the Opposition	None
Party control	National Democratic Alliance

Om Birla was elected as the Speaker of the House. As no party had 10% of the seats to secure the position of Leader of Opposition, there was no Leader of the Opposition. However, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was the leader of the Indian National Congress in the Lok Sabha, which was the second largest party during the 17th Lok Sabha.

The 17th Lok Sabha had the most women representatives, at 14 percent. Out of the 543-member house, 267 members were first-time MPs. 233 members (43 percent) have had criminal charges against them. 475 members had their declared assets to be more than ₹1 crore (US$120,000); average assets were ₹20.9 crore (US$2.5 million). Around 39 percent of members were professionally noted to be politicians or involved in social work.^{[citation needed]}

Members

• Speaker: Om Birla, BJP
• Deputy Speaker: Vacant
• Leader of the House: Narendra Modi, BJP
• Leader of Opposition: Nil
• Secretary General: Utpal Kumar Singh

Party-wise distribution of seats

Party wise distribution

Party		Seats	Leader in Lok Sabha
	BJP	303	Narendra Modi
	INC	52	Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
	DMK	23	T. R. Baalu
	AITC	22	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
	YSRCP	22	P. V. Midhun Reddy
	JD(U)	16	Rajiv Ranjan
	SS	18	Rahul Shewale
	BJD	12	Pinaki Misra
	BSP	10	Girish Chandra
	BRS	8	Nageswara Rao
	SS(UBT)	5	Vinayak Raut
	RLJP	5	Pashupati Kumar Paras
	NCP-SP	4	Supriya Sule
	TDP	3	K Ram Mohan Naidu
	IUML	3	E. T. Mohammed Basheer
	JKNC	3	Farooq Abdullah
	CPI(M)	3	P R Natarajan
	SP	5	S. T. Hasan
	CPI	1	K. Subbarayan
	AD(S)	2	Anupriya Patel
	SAD	2	Harsimrat Kaur Badal
	AIMIM	2	Asaduddin Owaisi
	AIUDF	1	Badruddin Ajmal
	SAD(A)	1	Simranjit Singh Mann
	KC(M)	1	T. Chazhikadan
	JD(S)	1	Prajwal Revanna
	NCP	1	Sunil Tatkare
	LJP(RV)	2	Chirag Paswan
	JMM	1	Vijay Hansdak
	AAP	0
	VCK	1	T.Thirumavalan
	RSP	1	Premchandran
	NDPP	1	T.Yepthomi
	AJSU	1	CP Choudhary
	NPF	1	Lorho Pfoze
	NPP	1	Agatha Sangma
	MNF	1	C. Lalrosanga
	SKM	1	I.H Subba
	Independent	2	Heera Saraniya
	Vacant	30	Sarguja Raigarh Bilaspur Ambala Morena Damoh Sidhi Jabalpur Hoshangabad Chandrapur Pune Jaipur Rural Alwar Nagaur Rajsamand Medak Malkajgiri Nalgonda Bhongir Ghazipur Krishnanagar

Statistics

Party-wise members with criminal charges

Party		Elected members	Members with criminal charges	Percent
	BJP	303	116	39%
	INC	52	28	47%
	DMK	24	10	43%
	JD(U)	16	13	81%
	AITC	22	9	41%
	BSP	10	5	50%
	CPI(M)	3	2	67%
	CPI	2	0	0%

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 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 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 from Sultanpur constituency and Santosh Gangwar 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 (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 ₹1 crore (US$120,000)) are 475. Members with more than ₹5 crore (US$590,000) assets are 266. The average assets of the whole Lok Sabha was ₹20.9 crore (US$2.5 million) and Nakul Nath of Congress from Chhindwara constituency has the highest declared assets of nearly ₹660 crore (US$78 million). Nath is followed by H. Vasanthakumar from Kanyakumari constituency, with ₹417 crore (US$49 million) and D. K. Suresh from Bangalore Rural constituency with ₹338 crore (US$40 million); 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.