Question

The Lok Sabha members hold office for a term of
1. 4 years
2. 5 years
3. 6 years
4. 3 years

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 5 years

The correct answer is 5 years.

• Members of the Lok Sabha hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers.
• The maximum membership of the Lok Sabha allotted by the Constitution of India is 552.
• Article 83(2) says that-
  • Duration of Houses of Parliament
  • 83(1) The council of States shall not be subject to dissolution, but as nearly as possible one-third of the members thereof shall retire as soon as may be on the expiration of every second year in accordance with the provisions made in that behalf by Parliament by law
  • 83(2) The House of the People, unless sooner dissolved, shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer and the expiration of the said period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the House.

• From 1952 to 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President on the advice of the Government of India.
• It was abolished by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019 in January 2020.
• 131 seats are reserved for representatives of Scheduled Tribes (47) and Scheduled Castes (84).
• On 17 April 1952, The Lok Sabha was duly constituted for the first time.
• The latest Lok sabha is the 17th Lok Sabha which made after the 2019 election.