Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha
/lawk" sub"hah/
the lower house of parliament in India.

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▪ Indian parliament
Hindi“House of the People”

      the lower chamber of India's bicameral parliament. Under the constitution of 1950, its members are directly elected for a term of five years by territorial constituencies in the states. In the early 1990s the Lok Sabha had 543 elected members; 13 of these represented the union territories. Two additional members were appointed by the president to represent the Anglo-Indian community. The upper chamber is the Rajya Sabha (“Council of States”). It has a maximum of 250 members, most of whom are elected indirectly by state legislatures; 12 of them are nominated by the president.

      The president of India, who is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of all elected members of parliament and of the state legislatures, is more a constitutional sovereign than a chief executive. The real power resides in the prime minister, who heads the Council of Ministers—ministers who are members of the cabinet and other ministers of state and deputy ministers. The council is responsible to the Lok Sabha.

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