15th Lok Sabha

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Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India.

Important members

• Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar
• Deputy Speaker: Kariya Munda, Bharatiya Janata Party, Khunti, Jharkhand
• Leader of the House: Sushil Kumar Shinde, Indian National Congress, Solapur, Maharashtra
• Leader of the Opposition: Sushma Swaraj, Bharatiya Janata Party, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
• Secretary General:
  • P.D.T. Acharya
  • T. K. Viswanathan

List of members by political party

S.No.	Party Name	Party flag or symbol	Number of MPs
1	Indian National Congress (INC)		203
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)		118
3	Samajwadi Party (SP)		22
4	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)		21
5	Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))		20
6	All India Trinamool Congress (AITC)		19
7	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)		18
8	Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))		16
9	Biju Janata Dal (BJD)		14
10	Shiv Sena (SS)		11
11	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)		9
12	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)		9
13	Independent (Ind.)		8
14	Telugu Desam Party (TDP)		6
15	Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)		5
16	Communist Party of India (CPI)		4
17	Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)		4
18	Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)	]	4
19	Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (J&KNC)		3
20	Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S))		3
21	All India Forward Bloc (AIFB)		2
22	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)		2
23	Muslim League Kerala State Committee (MLKSC)		2
24	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) (RSP)		2
25	Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)		2
38	YSR Congress Party		2
39	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha		2
26	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM)		1
27	Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)		1
28	All India Assam United Democratic Front(AUDF)(AIUDF)		1
29	Bodoland People's Front		1
30	Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi		1
31	Kerala Congress (Mani)		1
32	Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK)		1
33	Haryana Janhit Congress (BL)		1
34	Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi		1
35	Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF)		1
36	Swabhimani Paksha		1
37	Nagaland Peoples Front (NPF)		1

See also: List of members of the 15th Lok Sabha (by state)

Cabinet

Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh	2009 - Present
Deputy Prime Minister	vacant

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

See also: Council of Ministers of the Republic of India

United Progressive Alliance Cabinet by party

Source: Various news organisations
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	7
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

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

• MoS (I) - Ministers of State with Independent charge

Related members

Members from same family elected in 15th Lok Sabha:

• Mother - Son
  • Sonia Gandhi - Rahul Gandhi
  • Maneka Gandhi - Varun Gandhi
• Father - Son
  • Ajit Singh - Jayant Chaudhary
  • H. D. Deve Gowda - H. D. Kumaraswamy
  • Sisir Adhikari - Suvendu Adhikari
• Father - Daughter
  • Sharad Pawar - Supriya Sule
• Father-in-law - Son-in-law
  • Farooq Abdullah - Sachin Pilot
• Father-in-law - Daughter-in-law
  • Mulayam Singh Yadav - Dimple Yadav

By-Elections

• On 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.
• On May 13, 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 5,45,000 votes.
• Elections were held on 13th October 2011 for the Hissar Lok Sabha seat due to the death of Mr. Bhajan Lal. The HJC-BJP alliance, represented by Mr. Kuldeep Bishnoi s/o Late Mr. Bhajan Lal, won the election.
• On May 3, 2012, Akhilesh Yadav resigned from the Kannauj seat, to serve as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, after Samajwadi Party won Assembly Elections. His wife, Dimple Yadav was elected unopposed from the seat in the bye-elections.
• On October 13, 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 Mr.Vijay Bahuguna had resigned upon being elected to the Uttarakhand state assembly and becoming Chief Minister, while the MP from Jangipur , Mr. 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 Mr.Abhijit Mukherjee (son of Pranab Mukherjee) retained the Jangipur seat as Congress nominee.

External links

• Lok Sabha website
• List of winning candidates published by election commission of india on 17 May 2009.
• Tracking activity of MPs in Parliament