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  2. Lok Sabha - Wikipedia

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    The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the president of ...

  3. List of current Indian ruling and opposition parties - Wikipedia

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    As of 8 February 2025, NDA have government in 19 States and 2 Union Territories. INDIA bloc have government in 8 States and 1 union Territories. Other one party ZPM , which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.

  4. Ministry of Panchayati Raj - Wikipedia

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    Rashtriya Lok Samta Party: Modi I: Narendra Modi: 2 Nihalchand (born 1971) MP for Ganganagar: 9 November 2014 5 July 2016 1 year, 239 days: Bharatiya Janata Party: 3 Parshottam Rupala (born 1954) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat: 5 July 2016 30 May 2019 2 years, 329 days: 4 Kapil Patil (born 1961) MP for Bhiwandi: 7 July 2021 9 June 2024 2 years, 338 ...

  5. Government of India - Wikipedia

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    The council as a whole is responsible to the Lok Sabha. [26] The Lok Sabha is a temporary house and can be dissolved only when the party in power loses the support of the majority of the house. The Rajya Sabha is a permanent house and can never be dissolved. The members of the Rajya Sabha are elected for a six-year term. [27]

  6. Parliament of India - Wikipedia

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    The constitution provides that the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha be 550 members. The Lok Sabha has a term of five years. To be eligible for membership in the Lok Sabha, a person must be a citizen of India and must be 25 years of age or older, not hold any office of profit under union or state government, mentally sound, should not be ...

  7. Politics of India - Wikipedia

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    The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Parliament House, New Delhi. The maximum membership of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552 (Initially, in 1950, it was 500.) Currently, the house has 543 seats which are filed by the election of up to 543 elected members. The new parliament has a seating capacity of 888 for Lok ...

  8. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    District councils composed of the sub-divisional officers in charge of the sub-divisions of that district, a district panchayat officer appointed by the state government, a civil servant nominated by the state government, chairpersons of all locality councils under that district, 2 members elected by the sarpanchs of each sub-division of that ...

  9. State governments of India - Wikipedia

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    The Vidhan Sabha is the lower house and corresponds to the Lok Sabha while the Vidhan Parishad is the upper house and corresponds to the Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India. While the Union government handles defence, external affairs etc., the state government deals with internal security and other state issues.