TheSecond Manmohan Singh ministry introduced a total of 222 Bills (apart from Finance and Appropriations Bills) in the 15th Lok Sabha. A total of 165 Bills were passed by the House, including bills introduced in previous Lok Sabhas.[2]
14 sitting members from Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament, were elected to 15th Lok Sabha after the2009 Indian general election.[3]
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A graph of % of bills referred to Parliamentary committees
Deputy Leader of the Opposition:Sushma Swaraj,BJP,Vidisha,Madhya Pradesh (June, 2009 - December 2009) (She went on to become the 11th leader of opposition in lok sabha in 2009)
Source: Various news organisations[16][17][18][19] The newUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA) included 79 members, 78 members in the cabinet plus Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The first 20 cabinet ministers including Manmohan Singh, swore in on 22 May 2009, while the other 59 cabinet members swore in on 27 May 2009. The 5 non-Congress cabinet ministers, includeM.K. Azhagiri from the DMK.Mukul Roy from Trinamool Congress,Sharad Pawar from Nationalist Congress Party, andFarooq Abdullah from National Conference represent the other non-Congress cabinet ministers.
The below list only covers seats whose vacancies were filled through by-elections. Conventionally, vacancies occurring with less than a year to go for the conclusion of the term, are generally left vacant for the remainder of the term. In the case of the 15th Lok Sabha, this means that by-elections would not have been held for vacancies post June 2013, with less than a year to go for the2014 election. Only vacancies for which by-elections were held, i.e, occurring prior to May 2013, are mentioned here.
A total of 19 by-elections across seats in 11 different states were held through the duration of the 15th Lok Sabha, with the first in November 2009 and the last in August 2013.
6 of these by-elections were necessitated by the death of the incumbent MP, and 13 due to resignation.
Of the 13 resignations, 1 was for vacating a second seat, 6 for becoming Chief Ministers of different states, 1 for becoming President, 2 for becoming MLAs and 3 due to party defections.
In November 2010,Kadapa fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MPY. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, who also resigned his party membership. He contested the seat again in the by-elections on aYSR Congress Party ticket and won.
In February 2012,Nellore fell vacant due to the resignation of Congress MPMekapati Rajamohan Reddy, who also resigned his party membership. He contested the seat again in the by-elections on aYSR Congress Party ticket and won.
In April 2013,Howrah fell vacant due to the death of Trinamool Congress MPAmbica Banerjee.Prasun Banerjee of Trinamool Congress, a retired football player-turned-politician, won the seat in the by-election.
In May 2013,Bengaluru Rural fell vacant due to the resignation of JDS MPH. D. Kumaraswamy, as he became an MLA in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, after his victory fromRamanagara in the 2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.D. K. Suresh of Congress won the Lok Sabha seat in the by-election.
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