1946 parliament ministers from Tamil Nadu
Rajaji- Home minister
Gopal Swamy Ayyangar- Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation
1948 parliament ministers from Tamil Nadu- second Nehru Ministry
Gopal Swamy Ayyangar –Minister of Railways upto 13 May 1952
1952 No Members occupied Prime Minister Ministry From Tamil Nadu
Lok sabha election
The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their
respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.
The maximum strength of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552. Currently, the house has 545 seats which is made up by election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum, 2 nominated members of the Anglo-Indian Community by the President of India. A total of 131 seats (24.03%) are reserved for representatives of Scheduled Castes (84) and Scheduled Tribes (47). The quorum for the House is 10% of the total membership. The Lok Sabha, unless sooner dissolved, continues to operate for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting. However, while a proclamation of emergency is in operation, this period may be extended by Parliament by law.
Rajya Sabha election
Rajya Sabha also known as the Council of States consist of not more than 250 members of whom
238 members are elected by MLAs of various States and Union Territories
12 members nominated by the President.
238 are elected through a process of Proportional Representation and Single Transferable Vote. I will try to explain without going into specifics and to keep it as simple as possible.
Consider a state A in India having 10 MLAs as 3 Rajya Sabha vacancies(v1,v2,v3).
let there be two political parties- P1 with 6 MLAs and P2 with 4 MLAs
a,b,c are nominated by party P1
d,e,f are nominated by party P2
A nominee will require at least 3 votes to win the seat i.e.
Now every MLA will make a list of candidates and submit it to the Election Officer.
6 MlAs of party P1 will write as =
First prefrence= a
Second prefrence=b
Third preference =c
4 MlAs of party P2 will write as =
First prefrence= d
Second prefrence=e
Third preference =f
The result is Round 1:
In the First Round a and d will get selected. A has 3 extra First Preference votes, so they are transferred to b because those people who selected a as their First Preference chose b as their second preference, similarly d has 1 extra First Preference vote which will be transferred to e.
Round 2 result:
Here b has 3 votes b and he gets selected.
The winners are a, b and d.
This is called the election by Proportional Representation and Single Transferable Vote.
Cross Voting: Cross voting is a situation where 2 members of party P1 will give as their first preference but e as their second Preference which will give b only 1 vote in the second round but e will get 3 votes in the second round and e will get selected.
Term of Rajya Sabha members: Of the total 238 members of Rajya Sabha 1/3 retire every 2 years i.e. around 80 members in a period of 24 months.
Diwan Bahadur Sir Narasimha Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar.
Diwan Bahadur Sir Narasimha Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar was born in CSI, CIE (31 March 1882 – 10 February 1953) Tanjore District Assistant Professor in Pachiappas College. Member of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution
1 Deputy collector till 1919
2. District Magistrate in 1920
3. Register – General of Panchayats and Inspector of local boards -1921
4. Secretary- PWO, Board of Revenue Member -1937
5. Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir 1937-43
6. Defence Minister 1952-53
7 Minister in Assembly-1946
8. Member of the Drafting committee For formulating the Indian constitution.
9. Delegate to represent the Kashmir issue in 1948 in Un Nations at the Geneva talks
Chief drafter Of Article 370
10. Minister of railways and transport 1948-52
11. He reported “ Reorganization of government machinery”
12. He formed the Defence Committee, the Economic Committee, the Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Committee and the AdHoc Administrative Organization committee
He died on February 10 1953.
Honoured Diwan Bahadur, CIE, CSI.
1951-1952 Indian General election:
The Indian general election of 1951–52, held from 25 October 1951 to 21 February 1952, was the first election to the Lok Sabha since India became independent in August 1947. It was conducted under the provisions of the Indian Constitution, which was adopted on 26 November 1949. Elections to most of the state legislatures took place simultaneously.
After the adoption of the constitution on 26 November 1949, the Constituent Assembly continued to act as the interim parliament. The interim cabinet was headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and consisted of 15 members from diverse communities and parties. Various members of this cabinet resigned from their posts and formed their own parties to contest the elections.
1849 candidates competed for 489 seats in the Lok Sabha. More than 173 million people out of an overall population of about 360 million were eligible to vote] making it the largest election conducted at the time. Voter turnout was 45.7%.
The Indian National Congress (INC) won a landslide victory, winning 364 of the 489 seats and 45% of the total votes polled. This was over four times as many votes as the second-largest party. Jawaharlal Nehru became the first democratically elected
In 1952, CPI was the largest opposition party which lacked 10% seats securing only 16 out of 489 seats. So, its leader was not recognized as “Leader of Opposition” but only as the leader of the larger opposition party.