15th Lok Sabha

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]

Important members

Speaker: Meira Kumar, INC, Sasaram, Bihar
Deputy Speaker: Kariya Munda, BJP, Khunti, Jharkhand
Leader of the House: Sushil Kumar Shinde, INC, Solapur, Maharashtra
Leader of the Opposition: Sushma Swaraj, BJP, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
Secretary General:
- P.D.T. Achary[4]
- T. K. Viswanathan

Number of members by the alliance in Lok Sabha

Seats of the 15th Lok Sabha

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha by political party and alliance:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Alliances	Party	Seats
United Progressive Alliance Seats: 247	Indian National Congress	206
	All India Trinamool Congress	19
	Nationalist Congress Party	9
	Rashtriya Lok Dal	5
	National Conference	3
	Indian Union Muslim League	2
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1
	Kerala Congress (M)	1
	Nagaland People's Front	1
National Democratic Alliance Seats: 138	Bharatiya Janata Party	117
	Shiv Sena	11
	Shiromani Akali Dal	4
	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	2
	Asom Gana Parishad	1
	Haryana Janhit Congress	1
	Sikkim Democratic Front	1
	Bodoland People's Front	1
Third Front Seats: 75	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	15
	Communist Party of India	4
	Revolutionary Socialist Party	2
	All India Forward Bloc	2
	Bahujan Samaj Party	21
	Biju Janata Dal	14
	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	9
	Telugu Desam Party	6
	Janata Dal (Secular)	1
	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1
Fourth Front Seats: 26	Samajwadi Party	22
Fourth Front Seats: 26	Rashtriya Janata Dal	4
Other Parties and Independents Seats: 75
	Janata Dal (United)	20
	All India Trinamool Congress	19
	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	18
	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)	2
	YSR Congress Party (YSRP)	2
	Swabhimani Paksha	1
	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi	1
	All India United Democratic Front (AUDF)	1
	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	1
	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi	1
	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1
	Independents	9
Nominated		2
Total		545

List of members by political party

Members by political party in 15th Lok Sabha are given below[12]-

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag	Number of MPs	Leader in Loksabha
1	Indian National Congress (INC)		222	Sushil Kumar Shinde/Sonia Gandhi
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		112	Sushma Swaraj
3	Samajwadi Party (SP)		21	Mulayam Singh Yadav
4	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		21	Dara Singh Chauhan
5	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))		19	Ram Sundar Das
6	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		18	Sudip Bandyopadhyay
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		18	T R Balu
8	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		16	Basudeb Acharia
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		14	Arjun Charan Sethi
10	Shiv Sena (SS)		10	Anant Geete
11	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)		9	M. Thambidurai
12	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		8	Sharad Pawar
13	Independent (Ind.)		7
14	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)		6	Nama Nageswara Rao
15	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		5
16	Communist Party of India (CPI)		4	Gurudas Dasgupta
17	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)		4	Rattan Singh Ajnala
18	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		3
19	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		3
20	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		2	Narahari Mahato
21	Muslim League Kerala State Committee (MLKSC)		2	E Ahamed
22	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)		2
23	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) (JVM(P))	Comb	2	Babu Lal Marandi
24	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)		2
25	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)		2	K. Chandrasekhar Rao
26	YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)		2	Jagan Mohan Reddy
27	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1	Asaduddin Owaisi
28	All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF)		1	Badruddin Ajmal
29	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)		1	Joseph Toppo
30	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA)		1	Baliram Sukur Jadhav
31	Bodoland People's Front (BPF)		1	Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary
32	Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) (HJC(BL))		1	Kuldeep Bishnoi
33	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))		1
34	Kerala Congress (Mani) (KC(M))		1	Jose K Mani
35	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)		1	A. Ganeshamurthi
36	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)		1	Prem Das Rai
37	Swabhimani Paksha (SWP)		1	Raju Shetti
38	Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI(C))		1	Dr Tarun Mandal
39	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK)		1	Thol. Thirumavalavan
-	Vacant Constituencies		22[13]	-

Cabinet

Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh	2009–2014

Ministry	Minister	Term
Agriculture and Food processing industries	Sharad Pawar	2009–2014
Coal	Sriprakash Jaiswal	2009–2014
Civil Aviation	Ajit Singh	2009–2014
Chemicals and Fertilizers	M.K. Azhagiri	2009 - 2013 (resigned after DMK withdrew support)
Commerce and Industry	Anand Sharma	2009–2014
Communications and Information Technology	Kapil Sibal	2009–2014
Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution	Sharad Pawar	2009–2014
Defence	A.K. Antony	2009–2014
Earth Sciences	Jaipal Reddy	2012–2014 2011 - 2012 2011 - 2011(Due to his demise) 2009 - 2011
Environment and Forests	Veerappa Moily Jayanthi Natarajan Jairam Ramesh	2013-2014 2011–2013 2009 - 2011
External Affairs	Salman Khurshid S.M. Krishna	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Finance	P. Chidambaram Pranab Mukherjee	2012–2014 2009 - 2012 (He was elected President of India in JULY 2012)
Food Processing industries	Sharad Pawar	2009–2014
Health and Family Welfare	Ghulam Nabi Azad	2009–2014
Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	Praful Patel	2011–2014
Home Affairs	Sushil Kumar Shinde P. Chidambaram	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Information and Broadcasting	Ambika Soni	2009–2014
Labour and Employment	Mallikarjun Kharge	2009–2014
Law and Justice	Kapil Sibal Ashwani Kumar Salman Khurshid	2013–2014 2012 - 2013 (resigned after allegations in Coalgate) 2009 - 2012
Mines	Dinsha Patel B.K. Handique	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
New and Renewable Energy	S. Jagathrakshakan Farooq Abdullah	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Overseas Indian Affairs	Vayalar Ravi	2009–2014
Parliamentary Affairs	Kamal Nath Pawan Kumar Bansal	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Petroleum and Natural Gas	Veerappa Moily Jaipal Reddy	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Power	Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Veerappa Moily Sushil Kumar Shinde	2012–2014 July 2012 - Oct. 2012 2009 - 2012
Railways	Mallikarjun Kharge C.P. Joshi Pawan Kumar Bansal C.P. Joshi Mukul Roy Dinesh Trivedi Manmohan Singh (Additional Charge) Mamata Banerjee	17 June 2013 – 2014 2013-2013 2012 - 2013 (resigned after allegations of bribery) Sept. 2012 - Oct. 2012 Mar. 2012 - Sept. 2012 2011 - 2012 May 2011 - July 2011 2009 - 2011
Road Transport and Highways	C.P. Joshi G.K. Vasan	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Rural Development	Jairam Ramesh Vilasrao Deshmukh	2011–2014 2009 - 2011
Science and Technology	Jaipal Reddy Vayalar Ravi Vilasrao Deshmukh	2012–2014 2011 - 2012 2009 - 2011
Shipping	G.K. Vasan	2009–2014
Social Justice and Empowerment	Kumari Selja Mukul Wasnik	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Textiles	Anand Sharma	2009–2014
Tourism	Chiranjeevi Kumari Selja	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Tribal Affairs	V. Kishore Chandra Deo Kantilal Bhuria	2012–2014 2009 - 2012
Water Resources	Harish Rawat	2012–2014

United Progressive Alliance Cabinet by party

Source: Various news organisations[14][15][16][17]
The new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) included 79 members, 78 members in the cabinet plus Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The first 20 cabinet ministers including Manmohan Singh, swore in on 22 May 2009, while the other 59 cabinet members swore in on 27 May 2009. The 5 non-Congress cabinet ministers, include M.K. Azhagiri from the DMK. Mukul Roy from Trinamool Congress, Sharad Pawar from Nationalist Congress Party, and Farooq Abdullah from National Conference represent the other non-Congress cabinet ministers.

Party	Cabinet Ministers	Ministers of State	Total
Indian National Congress	27	32	59
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	1	4	5
Nationalist Congress Party	1	2	3
Jammu and Kashmir National Conference	1	0	1
Muslim League	0	1	1
Total	33	45	78

United Progressive Alliance cabinet by states

Source: The Hindu[18][19]

State	Cabinet Ministers	Ministers of State (I)	Ministers of State	Total
Uttar Pradesh	2
Maharashtra	5	2	2	9
Tamil Nadu	5	0	4	9
West Bengal	1	—	6	7
Kerala	2	0	4	6
Andhra Pradesh	3	0	4	7
Madhya Pradesh	—	—	—	4
Karnataka	3	0	1	4
Bihar	—	—	—	3
Himachal Pradesh	2	—	—	2
Meghalaya	—	—	—	2
Jharkhand	1	—	—	1
Uttarakhand	1	–	–	1

MoS (I) - Ministers of State with Independent charge

By-Elections

In November 2009, Raj Babbar of Indian National Congress got elected from Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh. Seat was vacant as Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party resigned from this seat keeping the Kannauj Seat as he had contested from both and had to drop one seat.[20]
On 13 May 2011, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy of YSR Congress got elected from Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. He resigned his seat when he resigned from Indian National Congress. He contested that seat again won by 545,000 votes.
Elections were held on 13 October 2011 for the Hissar Lok Sabha seat due to the death of Bhajan Lal. The HJC-BJP alliance, represented by Kuldeep Bishnoi s/o Bhajan Lal, won the election.
On 3 May 2012, Akhilesh Yadav resigned from the Kannauj seat, to serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after Samajwadi Party won Assembly Elections.[21] His wife, Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the seat in the bye-elections.[22]
On 13 October 2012 results of by-elections to Tehri Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttarakhand and Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal were declared. The incumbent MP of Tehri Vijay Bahuguna had resigned upon being elected to the Uttarakhand Legislative assembly and becoming Chief Minister, while the MP from Jangipur, Pranab Mukherjee, had ceased to be an MP upon election as the President of India, thus necessitating the by-elections. In Tehri, Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah of BJP won the seat while Abhijit Mukherjee (son of Pranab Mukherjee) retained the Jangipur seat as Congress nominee.