15th Lok Sabha

15th Lok Sabha
15th Lok Sabha
	Old Parliament House, Sansad Marg, New Delhi, India
Overview
Legislative body	Indian Parliament
Term	22 May 2009 - 26 May 2014
Election	2009 Indian general election
Government	Second Manmohan Singh ministry
Sovereign
President	Pratibha Patil; Pranab Mukherjee
Vice President	Hamid Ansari
House of the People
Members	545
Speaker of the House	Meira Kumar
Leader of the House	Pranab Mukherjee; Sushil Kumar Shinde
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Leader of the Opposition	Sushma Swaraj
Party control	United Progressive Alliance

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.^[1]

Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previous 14th Lok Sabha. The next 16th Lok Sabha was convened after 2014 Indian general election.

The Second 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 the 2009 Indian general election.^[3]

A graph of % of bills referred to Parliamentary committees

^ "President Pranab Mukherjee dissolves 15th Lok Sabha". The Economic Times.
^ S, Rukmini; Mukunth, Vasudevan (11 February 2014). "A legislative history of the 15th Lok Sabha". The Hindu.
^ "RAJYA SABHA STATISTICAL INFORMATION (1952-2013)" (PDF). Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 29 August 2017.

[1] "President Pranab Mukherjee dissolves 15th Lok Sabha". The Economic Times.

[2] S, Rukmini; Mukunth, Vasudevan (11 February 2014). "A legislative history of the 15th Lok Sabha". The Hindu.

[rs-3] "RAJYA SABHA STATISTICAL INFORMATION (1952-2013)" (PDF). Rajya Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 29 August 2017.

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