Parliament, from time to time, by law makes provision with respect to all matters relating to, or in connection with, elections to the Lok Sabha, including the preparation of electoral rolls, the delimitation of constituencies and all other matters necessary for securing the due constitution of the Lok Sabha.
What are the qualifications to become a Member of the Lok Sabha? To become a member of the Lok Sabha, a person should be a citizen of India, not less than 25 years of age and possess such other qualifications as may be prescribed by or under any law made by Parliament [Art. Who are the nominated Members of the Sixteenth Lok Sabha?
Shri George Baker and Prof. Who is the longest serving Member in the Sixteenth Lok Sabha? Neelam Sanjiva Reddy to contest the Presidential elections, Dr. Dhillon was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha on 8 August A Money Bill can be introduced only in the Lok Sabha.
It can, however, recommend amendments in a Money Bill. It is open to the Lok Sabha to accept or reject any or all of the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha with regard to a Money Bill. If the Lok Sabha accepts any of the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha , the Money Bill is deemed to have been passed by both Houses with amendments recommended by the Rajya Sabha and accepted by the Lok Sabha and if the Lok Sabha does not accept any of the recommendations of the Rajya Sabha , the Money Bill is deemed to have been passed by both Houses in the form in which it was passed by the Lok Sabha without any of the amendments recommended by the Rajya Sabha.
If a Money Bill passed by the Lok Sabha and transmitted to the Rajya Sabha is not returned to the Lok Sabha within the period of fourteen days, it is deemed to have been passed by both Houses at the expiration of the said period in the form in which it was passed by the Lok Sabha. What is the legislative relationship between the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha? In legislative matters, both the Houses enjoy almost equal powers except in the case of Money Bills.
The main function of both the Houses is to pass laws. Every Bill has to be passed by both the Houses and assented to by the President before it becomes law.
In case of Money Bills, the Lok Sabha has overriding powers. In the case of Bills other than Money Bills and Constitution Amendment Bills, a disagreement between the two Houses may arise when a Bill passed by one House is rejected by the other House; or the Houses have finally disagreed as to the amendments to be made in the Bill; or more than six months have elapsed from the date of receipt of the Bill by the other House without the Bill being passed by it.
What is the mechanism for resolving such a deadlock between the two Houses? A joint sitting of both Houses is convened by the President for this purpose.
How many joint sittings of the Houses have been convened so far? So far, joint sittings of the two Houses have taken place on three occasions. The first joint sitting was held on 6 May following a disagreement between the two Houses over certain amendments to the Dowry Prohibition Bill, This was followed by another sitting on 9 May when the Bill, as amended, was finally passed. The second joint sitting was held on 16 May , following the rejection by the Rajya Sabha of the Banking Service Commission Repeal Bill, and the Bill was passed.
At this sitting held for the purpose of deliberating and voting on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, , the Bill was passed. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha presides over the joint sitting of the two Houses. The Speaker has a casting vote in the event of a tie. It is customary for the Presiding Officer to exercise the casting vote in such a manner as to maintain the status quo. Normally three Sessions of the Lok Sabha are held in a year, viz. During the course of a Session, the Lok Sabha may be adjourned from day to day or for more than a day.
It may also be adjourned sine die which means the termination of a sitting of the House without any definite date being fixed for its next sitting. The Prorogation of the House may take place any time, even while the House is sitting. However, usually, prorogation follows the adjournment of the sitting of the House sine die.
Dissolution puts an end to the representative character of the individuals who at the time compose the Lok Sabha. On adjournment of the Lok Sabha or its adjournment sine die , the pending business does not lapse.
Prorogation terminates a Session and does not constitute an interruption in the continuity of life of the Lok Sabha which is brought to an end only by dissolution.
The various methods adopted for voting in the Lok Sabha are:. However, the method of recording of votes in the Lobbies has become obsolete ever since the installation of the Automatic Vote Recording Machine.
Secret voting , if any, is held on similar lines except that the Light Emitting Diode LED on the Individual Result Display Panel flashes only white light to show that the vote has been recorded. In such a case, the particulars of voting of the Members are not recorded. Thus, it is taken up from hrs to hrs in every sitting. What is a Parliamentary Question?
Question is one of the important Parliamentary devices available to the Members to seek information on a matter of urgent public importance subject to conditions imposed by the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha and the Directions by the Speaker.
A Member may ask question for the purpose of obtaining information on a subject matter of public importance within the special cognizance of the minister to whom it is addressed. What are the different types of Questions? There are basically four types of Questions Starred : A Member who desires an oral answer to his question is required to distinguish it by an asterix. Maximum 20 Questions are included in the list of Starred Questions for a particular day.
This is printed on green paper. Minimum of 15 clear days notice is required for tabling Starred Questions. The Questions not orally answered in the Starred list of questions are treated as Unstarred Questions and their replies are laid on the Table of the House. Unstarred : These do not carry the asterix mark and are meant for obtaining written reply.
Not more than Questions can be placed on the Unstarred list for a particular sitting. This list is printed on white paper. Minimum 15 clear days notice is required for tabling Unstarred Questions. Written answers given by the Ministers are deemed to have been laid on the Table of the House at the end of Question Hour.
Short Notice Question : Question can also be asked on a matter of urgent public importance at a notice of less than ten clear days. The list of admitted SNQ is printed on a pink paper. The procedure of SNQ is regulated by Rule 54 and the basic test for its admissibility is the urgency of matter. SNQ is asked and answered soon after the Question Hour. Question to Private Members : A Question may also be addressed to a Private Member under Rule 40 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, which provides that the subject matter of the question should be related to some Bill, Resolution or other matter connected with the Business of the House for which that Member is responsible.
For instance, the Questions which relates to matters under the purview of Parliamentary Committees can be addressed to respective Chairperson. Similarly, Members piloting Private Members Bills and Resolutions can be addressed questions, which are within cognizance of them under this provision. The procedure in regard to such questions is the same as that followed in the case of questions addressed to a Minister with such variations as the Speaker may consider necessary.
What is the maximum number of Questions admitted for a particular day? The maximum number of Questions to be placed on the list of Questions for oral answers Starred Question on a particular day is 20, while the maximum number of questions to be placed on the list of Unstarred Question is A member from the Panel of Chairmen presides over the House in the absence of both the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker.
As the conventional head of the Lok Sabha and as its principal spokesman, the Speaker represents its collective voice. Regulating the Business of the House. The final authority for adopting rules for regulating its procedure rests with each House, but a perusal of the rules of the Indian Parliament would indicate that the Presiding Officers in the two Houses are given vast powers by the rules. With regard to moving amendments to a Bill, the permission of the Chair is required.
The Speaker is the guardian of the rights and privileges of the House, its Committees and members. It depends solely on the Speaker to refer any question of privilege to the Committee of Privileges for examination, investigation and report. It is the Speaker who decides the form and manner in which the proceedings of the House is published. The entire Parliamentary Estate is under the authority of the Speaker. When a decision of the House is to be ascertained on a motion made by a member, the question is put by the Speaker before the House to obtain the decision.
The Speaker also has certain residuary powers under the Rules of Procedure. Under the Constitution, the Speaker enjoys a special position insofar as certain matters pertaining to the relations between the two Houses of Parliament are concerned. It is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha who presides over joint sittings called in the event of disagreement between the two Houses on a legislative measure.
As regards recognition of parliamentary parties, it is the Speaker who lays down the necessary guidelines for such recognition. Following the 52nd Constitution amendment, the Speaker is vested with the power relating to the disqualification of a member of the Lok Sabha on grounds of defection. The Speaker makes obituary references in the House, formal references to important national and international events and the valedictory address at the conclusion of every Session of the Lok Sabha and also when the term of the House expires.
Though a member of the House, the Speaker does not vote in the House except on those rare occasions when there is a tie at the end of a decision. Till date, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha has not been called upon to exercise this unique casting vote. Parliament Lok Sabha Indian Constitution. Every house in the parliament has its own presiding officer.
The speaker and the deputy speaker is the presiding officer of the Lok Sabha. The presiding officer is not merely an officer with ordinary powers. One of the main factors responsible for this has been the non-observance of constitutional conventions by the presiding officers in both the Houses, ie The Speaker in the Lok Sabha and The Chairperson in the Rajya Sabha and in their absence, the Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman respectively.
In India's parliamentary system, the presiding officers regulate the conduct of the business of the Houses and are the sole authority for every procedural decision. Because of the way these presiding officers are appointed, more often than not a member of the ruling coalition is the presiding officer in the two Houses of the Parliament.
Constitutional conventions have required presiding officers to be non-partisan in their conduct, yet, in recent years, their conduct has been far from that. Two critical examples in the Lok Sabha are the presiding officer's arbitrary certification of the controversial Aadhaar Act as the money bill and their non-acknowledgement of the Opposition party leader as the statutorily recognised Leader of Opposition.
On the other hand, in the Rajya Sabha, the presiding officer declared the previously mentioned farm bills as passed after a voice vote against which multiple Opposition members had protested. The Opposition members' request for a physical counting of the votes was denied without providing any adequate explanation. Opposition members, as well as constitutional experts, have contended that these rejections were in violation of the rules of procedures of the Parliament.
After the passage of the controversial farm bills, the presiding officer of the Rajya Sabha also suspended eight Opposition MPs for 'unruly behaviour'. It is worth noting that these are not isolated events , and such incidents have been witnessed since the start of the BJP tenure in While this would just scrape the surface of the manifold problems facing Indian democracy, reforming the way presiding officers are appointed is a vital step to ensure Indian democracy's sustainability.
Consequently, we propose a radical shakeup to the way presiding officers in both the houses are appointed that would call for the appointment of two Associate Speakers and two Deputy Associate Speakers in both the Houses on the first day of the respective Houses.
The ruling coalition would appoint one Associate Speaker and one Deputy Associate Speaker, and the other Associate Speaker and Deputy Associate Speaker would be appointed jointly by the Opposition coalition and non-aligned members.
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