14th Lok Sabha

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The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the Indian general election, 2004 held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of First Manmohan Singh Cabinet (2004–2009). The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India.

Important members

Speaker: Somnath Chatterjee, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Bolpur, West Bengal
Deputy Speaker: Charanjit Singh Atwal, Shiromani Akali Dal, Phillaur, Punjab
Leader of the House: Pranab Mukherjee, Indian National Congress, Jangipur, West Bengal
Leader of the Opposition: Lal Krishna Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Secretary General: P.D.T. Acharya ^[1]

Expulsion of members for contempt of the House

On 12 December 2005, the Star TV news channel telecast the sting operation Operation Duryodhana, in which 11 Members of Parliament, 10 from Lok Sabha and 1 from Rajya Sabha, were apparently caught on video receiving cash inducements in return for raising questions in the Parliament.^[2] Following swift inquiries by the Ethics Committee of Rajya Sabha and a Special Committee of the Lok Sabha the members were found guilty^[3] and the motion for their expulsion was adopted in respective Houses.

On 23 December 2005, the following 10 members were ousted from the 14th Lok Sabha as per the adoption of the motion calling for their expulsion:

Narendra Kushwaha (BSP) – Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
Annasaheb M. K. Patil (BJP) – Erandol, Maharashtra
Y. G. Mahajan (BJP) – Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Manoj Kumar (Rashtriya Janata Dal) – Palamau, Jharkhand
Suresh Chandel (BJP) – Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
Raja Ram Pal (BSP) – Bilhaur, Uttar Pradesh
Lal Chandra Kol (BJP) – Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh
Pradeep Gandhi (BJP) – Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP) – Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh
Ramsevak Singh (Congress) – Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

List of members by political party

S.No.	Party Name	Number of MPs
1	Indian National Congress (INC)	141
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	137
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))	43
4	Samajwadi Party (SP)	36
5	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)	24
6	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	17
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)	16
8	Shiv Sena (SS)	12
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)	11
10	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	11
11	Communist Party of India (CPI)	10
12	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)	8
13	Independent (Ind.)	6
14	Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK)	6
15	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)	5
16	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)	5
17	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)	2
18	Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJSP)	4
19	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)	4
20	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)	3
21	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))	3
22	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)	3
23	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)	3
24	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)	3
25	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)	2
26	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)	2
27	Kerala Congress (KEC)	2
28	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)	1
29	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)	2
30	Bharatiya Navshakti Party (BNP)	1
31	Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (J&KPDP)	1
32	Mizo National Front (MNF)	1
33	Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)	1
34	Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF)	1
35	National Loktantrik Party (NLP)	1
36	Republican Party of India (A) (RPI(A))	1
37	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)	1

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References

↑ "Fourteenth Lok Sabha". Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011.
↑ Operation Durhyodhana by Aniruddha Bahal of Cobrapost, contains extensive details of each interaction. Archived 23 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Report of the Lok Sabha inquiry committee, on Parliament of India website (in PDF format)
↑ Lok Sabha Official Website accessed 19 Oct 2007. Archived 19 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.

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