THE QUIET and the ARGUMENTATIVE ATTENDANCE (%) the Council of Ministers Was Expanded on Tuesday with Years
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THE QUIET AND THE ARGUMENTATIVE ATTENDANCE (%) The council of ministers was expanded on Tuesday with years. SS Ahluwalia did not ask at all. In the Upper House, 19 members of Parliament swearing in as ministers of state. MJ Akbar and VIjay Goel had top attendance of 94 per cent. Here is a snapshot of their activity in Parliament. While Akbar almost sat quiet through his one-year term, DEBATE In the Lok Sabha, P P Chaudhary and Arjun Ram Meghwal not asking any questions, Mansukh Mandavia led with 449 PARTICIPATION topped the attendance chart with 98 per cent attendance questions in four years. For Rajya Sabha members, the data with Chaudary asking most number of questions in the is for the period of their current term. As each of them Lok Sabha at 394. Bijapur MP Ramesh Jigajinagi was started their tenure on different dates, their activity would QUESTIONS among quietest asking just one question in the last two depend on the length of the current term till now. ASKED M J AKBAR ARJUN R MEGHWAL J S BHABHOR MAHENDRA N PANDEY AJAY TAMTA KRISHNA RAJ Rajya Sabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha 94 | 3 | 0 98 | 92 | 336 90 | 11 | 138 97 | 49 | 60 94 | 16 | 69 96 | 50 | 68 P.P. CHAUDHARY VIJAY GOEL RAMDAS ATHAWALE RAJEN GOHAIN ANIL MADHAV DAVE P K RUPALA* LokSabha Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha LokSabha Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha 98 | 358 | 394 94 | 32 | 332 79 | 39 | 378 68 | 8 | 23 76 | 68 | 399 75 | 43 | 550 FAGGAN S KULASTE SUBHASH R BHAMRE S S AHLUWALIA RAMESH C JIGAJINAGI ANUPRIYA S PATEL C R CHOUDHARY M L MANDAVIYA President Pranab Mukherjee (extreme left) administers oath to new LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha LokSabha Rajya Sabha Ministers of State at the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday. PHOTO: PTI 91 | 15 | 81 77 | 9 | 218 87 | 30 | 0 97 | 0 | 1 90 | 49 | 71 97 | 133 | 322 68 | 55 | 449 *Pertains to previous term that ended in 2014, yet to attend Parliament in new term that began in June, 2016 Source: PRS Legislative Research.