The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Lok means "people" and Sabha means "assembly" in Sanskrit.
- The Lok Sabha (House of the People) was rightfully constituted surprisingly on April 17, 1952 after the first General Elections held from October 5, 1951 to February 21, 1952.
- The Lok Sabha is made out of agents of the individuals from 543 voting demographics, picked by immediate decision on the premise of grown-up suffrage(General Elections).
- The Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha and Directions issued by the Speaker now and again there under control the strategy in Lok Sabha. The things of business, notice of which is gotten from the Ministers/ Private Members and conceded by the Speaker, are incorporated in the every day List of Business which is printed and flowed to parts ahead of time. For different things of business to be taken up in the House the time is allocated by the House on the proposals of the Business Advisory Committee.
- A sum of 131 seats (18.42%) are saved for delegates of Scheduled Castes(84) and Scheduled Tribes(47) just. The greatest quality of the House imagined by the Constitution of India is 552, which is made up by race of up to 530 parts to speak to the States, up to 20 parts to speak to the Union Territories and not more than two parts of the Anglo-Indian Community to be assigned by the President of India, if, as he would like to think, that group is not enough spoken to in the House.
- The aggregate elective participation is appropriated among the States in such a path, to the point that the proportion between the amount of seats designated to each one State and the number of inhabitants in the State is, so far as practicable, the same for all states.
Qualifications Require
Article 84 (Part V.—The Union) of Indian Constitution sets qualifications for being a member of Lok Sabha, which are as follows:-
2. He/She, in the case of a seat in the House of the People, should not be less than twenty-five years of age; and
3. He/She possesses such other qualifications as may be prescribed in that behalf by or under any law made by Parliament.
- However, a member can be disqualified of being a member of Parliament:-
- If he/she holds office of profit;
- If he/she is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court
- If he/she is an undischarged insolvent;
- If he/she is not a citizen of India, or has voluntarily acquired the citizenship of a foreign State, or is under any acknowledgment of allegiance or adherence to a foreign State;
- If he/she is violating party discipline (as per Tenth schedule of the constitution); disqualified under Representation of People Act.