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16TH PARLIAMENT, ITS AFFAIRS AND VOTERS PERCEPTION
Authors: Devananda R. & GD Narayana
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After the Independence of India first general elections was held from 25-10-1951 to 21-05-1952. After
the general elections first Lok sabha was constituted on 17-04-1952. For the 16th Lok sabha the
general election was held from 07-04-2014 to 12-05-2014 this was the longest election in Indian
general election history. After the elections the NDA came to power with BJP having its own 282
members in 543 members. 2 Anglo Indian members are nominated by the president of India to the
Parliament.
Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi took the office on 26-05-2014 as the 14th Prime Minister of
Independent India. Its first session was scheduled to conveyed from 04-06-2014. In this 16th Lok
sabha, the productivity of Parliament members in both houses of the parliament is less than 10% in
average. For this 16th parliament no opposition leader was in the house, according to the norms of
Lok sabha the parliament has to work 06-00 hours daily. But parliament worked only 01-15 hours
only. This shows the working attitude of 16th Lok sabha parliament members.
The Parliament members elected for 16th Lok sabha, have 20.66% serious criminal cases against
them. 13.47% of Lok sabha members have no serious criminal cases against them, and 65.87% of
parliament members have no criminal cases against them. 1/3 of elected members had at least one
pending criminal case against them with some having serious criminal cases. Majority of the elected
members are Karodpathi members.
The contemporary issues are no preference for valuable democratic debate; the members are not
cooperative with the speakers of both houses. The members are opposing the government for
opposition only, the members are more regionalists, and members are controlled by political parties
at the time of parliament sessions also, many of them as no specific vision and mission.
The challenges for Indian parliament are caste politics, identity politics, money power, and muzzle
power, party politics, corruption, continues election throughout the year, changing nature and newly
emerging political trends in contemporary Indian politics, different socio-religious communities,
disrespecting the constitutional institutions, polarization of politics.