5th Lok Sabha
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List of Members of the 5th Lok Sabha
, ( 15 March 1971- 18 January 1977 ) elected February-March 1971
. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India
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Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
, ( 15 March 1971- 18 January 1977 ) elected February-March 1971
Indian general election, 1971
India held general elections to the 5th Lok Sabha. This fifth general elections, which were conducted for 518 seats from 518 constituencies, represented 27 Indian states and union territories. Indira Gandhi steered the Congress to a landslide victory in 1971...
. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India
Parliament of India
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...
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Important members
- Speaker:
- Gurdial Singh DhillonGurdial Singh DhillonDr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon was a Punjabi politician in the Indian National Congress party. He was President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Indian High Commissioner to Canada .-Early life:...
from 22 March 1971 to 1 December 1975 - Bali Ram BhagatBali Ram BhagatBali Ram Bhagat was an Indian politician. He was born in Patna, Bihar. He served as the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1976 to 1977, during the turbulent final year of Indira Gandhi’s first reign as prime minister. He served as Minister for External Afairs of India under Indira’s son, Rajiv Gandhi,...
from 5 January 1976 to 25 March 1977
- Gurdial Singh Dhillon
- Deputy Speaker:
- G.G.SwellG.G.SwellGeorge Gilbert Swell was an Indian politician, a former Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha and its member from Shillong in Meghalaya.-Early life:...
from 27 March 1971 to 18 January 1977
- G.G.Swell
- Secretary General:
- S. L. ShakdharS. L. ShakdharS. L. Shakdhar was a Chief Election Commissioner of India and former Secretary-General of 3rd Lok Sabha, 4th Lok Sabha and 5th Lok Sabha . He was Chief Election Commissioner from 1977 to 1982. He hailed from Jammu and Kashmir. He died in 2002....
from 2 September 1964 to 18 June 1977
- S. L. Shakdhar