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By which Constitutional Amendment Act the number of seats of Lok Sabha was increased from 525 to 545?
By which Constitutional Amendment Act the number of seats of Lok Sabha was increased from 525 to 545?
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- The number of seats in the Lok Sabha was increased from 525 to 545 by the 31st Constitutional Amendment Act, 1972.
- By the 33rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1974, Articles 101 and 190 were amended to provide that the Speaker/Chairman can accept the resignation of the members of the Parliament and the State Legislature only when he is satisfied that the resignation is voluntary or genuine.
- Sikkim was made the twenty-second state of India by the 36th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1975.
- The Privy Purse and the privileges of the former rulers of the princely states were abolished by the 26th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1971.
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- The current Speaker of Lok Sabha is Om Birla.
- Thefirst Speaker of the Lok Sabha was Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar.
- Meira Kumar was the first woman Speaker of Lok Sabha.
- The state of Uttar Pradesh sends the maximum number of representatives (80) to the Lok Sabha.
- By the 104th Constitutional Amendment 2020, the seats reserved for the Anglo-Indian community in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures have been removed and the reservation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies has been extended again for 10 years.
- The boundaries of Lok Sabha and state assembly seats are re-determined by the Delimitation Commission.
- Under Article 82, Parliament enacts a Delimitation Act after every census. After the Act comes into force, the Delimitation Commission is appointed by the President and this commission works in conjunction with the Election Commission.
- Delimitation Commissions were constituted four times in the years 1952, 1963, 1973 and 2002 under the Acts of 1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002.
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