Study of the 17th General Elections of Lok Sabha: Emergence of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) as a single largest political party with majority

Vol-4 | Issue-12 | December 2019 | Published Online: 19 December 2019    PDF ( 253 KB )
Author(s)
Dr Satish Kumar 1

1Associate Professor, Political Science, Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Eve) College University of Delhi, New Delhi (India)

Abstract

A general political participation is actually voting and political competition in which the majority of people from a certain political body are actually concerned. There are typically kept for a land, state, or maybe region's important authoritative body, and therefore more or less not the just like by elections (just a single electorate goes to election). In the most of the frameworks, a general election is actually a regularly planned election where both a head of the government (like Prime Minister or president), and possibly all people or "a class" from an assembly are actually picked together. Sometimes, dates for common elections might line up with dates of elections within different regulatory divisions, such as a community election. In India, elections are actually held in time and based on the Constitutional law which commands parliamentary elections once at frequent time line- based intervals. The Seventeenth general elections of the Lok Sabha Elections were conducted in seven stages from April 11, 2019 to May 19, 2019 by the Election Commission of India. As a result of the 17th general elections of Lok Sabha, no political party got 10 % seats to qualify as opposition party on the floor of Lok Sabha.
The seventeenth Lok Sabha has 14 % female representations taking all political parties in the record. 267 people are actually first time MPs. 233 people (forty three percent) have had criminal records / allegations against them. 475members have the announced resources of theirs for be much more than ₹1 crore (US$140,000); regular energy had been ₹20.9 crore (US$2.9 million). Approximately thirty nine percent of people are skillfully mentioned to be lawmakers or even connected with social work.

Keywords
Election commission, Constitution of India, Lok Sabha, Political Party
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