• The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the 

upper house of the Parliament of India.

• Term Limit : 6 years
• 250 members
• President can appoint 12 members for their
contributions to art, literature, science, and
social services. 
 Name of state and union territory No. of Seats

Andhra Pradesh[14] 11

Arunachal Pradesh 1

Assam 7

Bihar 16

Chhattisgarh 5

Goa 1

Gujarat 11

Haryana 5

Himachal Pradesh 3

Jammu & Kashmir 4

Jharkhand 6

Karnataka 12

Kerala 9

Madhya Pradesh 11

Maharashtra 19

Manipur 1

Meghalaya 1

Mizoram 1

Nagaland 1

National Capital Territory of Delhi 3

Nominated 12

Odisha 10

Puducherry 1

Punjab 7

Rajasthan 10

Sikkim 1

Tamil Nadu 18

Telangana [14]
7

Tripura 1

Uttar Pradesh 31

Uttarakhand 3

West Bengal 16

Total 245
 Loksabha
• the Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the Lower house of India

• 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
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lok_Sabha
• Vidhan Sabha or the Legislative Assembly is the lower house (in states
with bicameral) or the sole house (in unicameral states) of the state
legislature.

• The upper house in the seven states with a bicameral legislature is called
the Legislative Council, or Vidhan Parishad.

• They are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka,

Maharashtra, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh. The members of a Vidhan
Sabha are elected by the general public

• through the state elections. They are known as MLAs or Members of

Legislative Assembly. 
• Rajya Sabha is the Upper house of the
Parliament of India.
• It is also known as the Council of States as its
members are elected not by the general public
but by the members of the state legislative
assembly.
• They are known as Rajya Sabha MPs.
• Lok Sabha is the Lower house of the
Parliament of India.

• It is also known as the House of People as its

members are directly elected by the general
public through the general elections. They are
known as Lok Sabha MPs.
 No. of seats
• In a Vidhan Sabha, there cannot be more than
500 and less than 60 members.

• It can have less than 60 members only through

an Act of Parliament as is the case in Goa,
Sikkim, Mizoram and the Union Territory of
Puducherry.
• In Lok Sabha, there can be a maximum of 552 members of which
• 530 are from the states, 20 are from the Union Territories and 2
are from an Anglo-Indian community who can be appointed by
the President.

• People from the Anglo-Indian community are basically people

with a mix of Indian and British ancestry.

• Current Indian laws have provision for 545 seats of which 530,13
and 2 are the respective distribution.