India's Parliament

Parliament of India भारतीय संसद
Emblem of India
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha
History
Founded	26 January 1950 (67 years ago) (1950-01-26)
Preceded by	Constituent Assembly of India
Leadership
President	Pranab Mukherjee Since 25 July 2012
Chairman of Rajya Sabha (Vice-President)	Mohammad Hamid Ansari Since 25 August 2012
Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha	P. J. Kurien, INC Since 21 August 2012
Speaker of the Lok Sabha	Sumitra Mahajan, BJP Since 6 June 2014
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha	M. Thambidurai, AIADMK Since 13 August 2014
Leader of the House (Lok Sabha)	Narendra Modi, BJP Since 26 May 2014
Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha)	Arun Jaitley, BJP Since 2 June 2014
Structure
Seats	790 245 Members of Rajya Sabha 545 Members of Lok Sabha
Rajya Sabha political groups	NDA (Majority) UPA
Lok Sabha political groups	NDA (Majority) UPA
Elections
Rajya Sabha voting system	Single transferable vote
Lok Sabha voting system	First past the post
Rajya Sabha last election	14 March and 11 June, 2016
Lok Sabha last election	7 April – 12 May 2014
Rajya Sabha next election	June and July, 2017
Lok Sabha next election	April - May 2019
Meeting place
Sansad Bhavan, Sansad Marg, New Delhi, India
Website
parliamentofindia.nic.in
Constitution
Constitution of India

Coordinates: 28°37′2″N 77°12′29″E / 28.61722°N 77.20806°E / 28.61722; 77.20806

The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. The Parliament is composed of the President of India and the houses. It is bicameral with two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President in his role as head of legislature has full powers to summon and prorogue either house of Parliament or to dissolve Lok Sabha. The president can exercise these powers only upon the advice of the Prime Minister and his Union Council of Ministers.

Those elected or nominated (by the President) to either house of Parliament are referred to as members of parliament (MP). The Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha are directly elected by the Indian public voting in Single-member districts and the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha are elected by the members of all the State Legislative Assembly by proportional representation. The Parliament has a sanctioned strength of 545 in Lok Sabha including the 2 nominees from the Anglo-Indian Community by the President and 245 in Rajya Sabha including the 12 nominees from the expertise of different fields of science, culture, art and history. The Parliament meets at Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.