Election’09

The 15th Lok Sabha Election of India is going to be an uphill task for the Indian political parties for various reasons. The bombastic explosion of electronic media and its outsized reach have astonishingly increased the awareness of the Indian electorates. On a platter, the Indian media has like never before served the masses the deprivation and exploitation of the Indians. The media has also highlighted as to how the Indian politicians are taking the electorates for holy rides under some pretext or other. Hence the whole credit for making this election an acid test for the Artful Dodgers of Indian politics goes to the media which played the role of a catalyst.

The 15th Lok Sabha, political parties and leaders.

Now, The National Democratic Alliance comprising the BJP and its allies officially announced L. K. Advani as their candidate for Prime Ministership. The UPA constituting Indian National Congress (INC) and its allies didn’t officially announce their candidate for Prime Ministership. But, one speculation is Rahul Gandhi, the son of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Apart from them, though the third alliances, which one is just borne, haven’t yet officially announced their Prime Ministerial candidate Mayavathi is claiming for the post.

Some Infos regarding Indian Parliament.

As we are going to face the Lok Sabha Election of India, which is scheduled to be held by the month of May 2009, here is some details of Indian Parliament.

According to Article 79 of the Constitution of India, the Parliament consists of President of India and the two Houses of Parliament known as Council of States (Rajya Sabha) and House of the People (Lok Sabha). The maximum strength of Lok Sabha or the lower house of the Indian Parliament is 552, comprising 530 members who represent the States, up to 20 members who stand for the Union Territories and not more than 2 members from the Anglo-Indian Community who are nominated by the President. The maximum number of members of Rajya Sabha can be 250. Article 80 of the Constitution of India provides that 12 members are to be nominated by the President of India and not more than 238 representatives from the States to be elected by the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.