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14th Lok Sabha

14th Lok Sabha
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Old Parliament House, Sansad Marg, New Delhi, India
Overview
Legislative body	Indian Parliament
Term	22 May 2004 - 22 May 2009
Election	2004 Indian general election
Government	First Manmohan Singh ministry
Sovereign
President	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Pratibha Patil
Vice President	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Hamid Ansari
House of the People
Members	545
Speaker of the House	Somnath Chatterjee
Leader of the House	Pranab Mukherjee
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Leader of the Opposition	L. K. Advani
Party control	United Progressive Alliance

The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 62 more seats than previous 13th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. 8 sitting members from Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament, were elected to 14th Lok Sabha after the 2004 Indian general election.^[1]

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The next 15th Lok Sabha was convened after 2009 Indian general election.

A graph of % of bills referred to Parliamentary committees

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During the tenure of the 14th Lok Sabha, 60% of bills were referred to Parliamentary committees for examination.^[2][3]

• 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 (PM Manmohan Singh was from Upper house)
• Leader of the Opposition: Lal Krishna Advani, Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• Secretary General: P.D.T. Acharya^[4]

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.^[5] Following swift inquiries by the Ethics Committee of Rajya Sabha and a Special Committee of the Lok Sabha the members were found guilty^[6] 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:

1. Narendra Kushwaha (BSP) – Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
2. Annasaheb M. K. Patil (BJP) – Erandol, Maharashtra
3. Y. G. Mahajan (BJP) – Jalgaon, Maharashtra
4. Manoj Kumar (RJD) – Palamau, Jharkhand
5. Suresh Chandel (BJP) – Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
6. Raja Ram Pal (BSP) – Bilhaur, Uttar Pradesh
7. Lal Chandra Kol (BSP) – Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh
8. Pradeep Gandhi (BJP) – Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
9. Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP) – Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh
10. Ramsevak Singh (Congress) – Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag	Number of MPs	Leader in Lok Sabha
1	Indian National Congress (INC)		141	Pranab Mukherjee
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		130	L. K. Advani
3	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		43	Basudev Acharia
4	Samajwadi Party (SP)		36
5	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		24
6	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		17
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		16	T.R. Baalu
8	Shiv Sena (SS)		12
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		11
10	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		11
11	Communist Party of India (CPI)		10	P. K. Vasudevan Nair (till 12 July 2005) Gurudas Dasgupta (afterwards)
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	Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu
17	Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)		5	K. Chandrashekar Rao
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	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)		2
25	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		2
26	Kerala Congress (KEC)		2
27	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1	Asaduddin Owaisi
28	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		2	Mamata Banerjee
29	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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After a long time since the 8th Lok Sabha, a couple had been elected - Pappu Yadav (RJD MP from Madhepura) & his wife Ranjeet Ranjan (LJSP MP from Saharsa)

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