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Parliament of India
Bhāratīya Sansad
State Emblem of India
Type
Type
Bicameral
Houses
Upper house: Council of States
Lower house: House of People
History
Founded
26 January 1950 (74 years ago) (1950-01-26)
Preceded by
Constituent Assembly of India
Leadership
President of India
Droupadi Murmu[1] since 25 July 2022
Vice President of India & Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Jagdeep Dhankhar[2] since 11 August 2022
Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Harivansh Narayan Singh[3], JD(U) since 14 September 2020
Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
Piyush Goyal[4], BJP since 14 July 2021
Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha
Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP since 17 December 2022
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
Mallikarjun Kharge, INC since 11 December 2022
Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha
Pramod Tiwari, INC since 13 March 2023
Speaker of the Lok Sabha
Om Birla[5], BJP since 19 June 2019
Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Narendra Modi[6], BJP since 26 May 2014
Deputy Leader of the House in Lok Sabha
Rajnath Singh, BJP since 26 May 2014
Structure
Seats
788
245 Members of Rajya Sabha
543 Members of Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha political groups
Government (120)
Opposition (121)
Vacant (4)
Lok Sabha political groups
Government (346)
Opposition (166)
Vacant (31)
Elections
Rajya Sabha voting system
Single transferable vote
Lok Sabha voting system
First-past-the-post
Last Rajya Sabha election
10 June 2023
Last Lok Sabha election
11 April – 19 May 2019
Next Rajya Sabha election
2024 elections
Next Lok Sabha election
2024 elections
Meeting place
Sansad Bhavan 118, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, 110001 National Capital Territory of Delhi, Republic of India
Website
sansad.in
Constitution
Constitution of India
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The Parliament of India (IAST: Bhāratīya Sansad) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President of India, in their role as head of the legislature, has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve the Lok Sabha, but they can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the Prime Minister and their Union Council of Ministers.
Those elected or nominated (by the president) to either house of Parliament are referred to as members of Parliament (MPs). The members of parliament of the Lok Sabha are directly elected by the Indian public voting in single-member districts and the members of parliament of the Rajya Sabha are elected by the members of all state legislative assemblies by proportional representation. The Parliament has a sanctioned strength of 550 in the Lok Sabha and 250 in the Rajya Sabha including 12 nominees from the expertise of different fields of literature, art, science, and social service.[7] The Parliament meets at Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi. The Parliament of India represents the largest democratic electorate in the world (the second is the European Parliament), with an electorate of 912 million eligible voters in 2019. On May 28, 2023, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, unveiled and inaugurated the New Parliament Building, located adjacent to the previous one.
^"Droupadi Murmu takes oath as the 15th President of India". The Hindu. New Delhi, India. 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 25 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
^"Jagdeep Dhankhar sworn in as 14th Vice-President of India". The Times of India. Mumbai, India. 11 August 2022. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^"Harivansh Narayan Singh re-elected Rajya Sabha deputy chairman | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 14 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^"Minister Piyush Goyal To Be Leader Of House in Rajya Sabha". NDTV. Archived from the original on 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^"Om Birla unanimously elected Lok Sabha Speaker, PM Modi heaps praise on BJP colleague". India Today. 19 June 2019. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
^"Narendra Modi is sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India". The Times of India. 26 May 2014. Archived from the original on 6 September 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
^"Nominated Members of Rajya Sabha". Rajya Sabha. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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