Parliament of India

Sources

• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Constitution of India (Ministry of Law and Justice, Legislative Department), Arts. 52-79, 79-122, 124, read 2026-10-12: existence, structure and names of the Presidency, Government, Parliament, its two Houses and the Supreme Court. For: Parliament of India
• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Hindi terms as used in the Hindi text of the Constitution of India (Legislative Department). Terms were entered from the Constitution's standard Hindi vocabulary and not re-fetched this session; verify. For: Parliament of India in Hindi
• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Constitution of India, articles cited in each power description, read 2026-10-12. For: Make laws on the Union List and the Concurrent List, Amend the Constitution, Control taxation and public expenditure
• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Constitution of India (Legislative Department), Arts. 54-56, 66-67, 75, 80-83, 89, 93, 124: selection method, seat counts and terms; minister portfolios from Wikipedia 'Third Modi ministry' (read 2026-10-12). Fallback: Wikipedia, because pmindia.gov.in and cabsec.gov.in were not reachable for a machine-readable portfolio list. For: Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Member of the Lok Sabha, Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and 2 more
• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 indirect / chosen_by_college "state and union territory legislative assemblies": from the selection_detail, which rests on this source ([world:in-national] Constitution of India (Legislative Department), Arts. 54-56, 66-67, 75, 80-83, 89, 93, 124: selectio); migration 054, ticket 2207, reviewed by improvements:schema-indirect-dissolved 2026-10-12 For: Member of the Rajya Sabha
• en.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Wikipedia, Third Modi ministry (read 2026-10-12): cabinet portfolios, holders and the 25 July 2026 Education charge change. Fallback source. For: Godam Nagesh as Member of the Lok Sabha, Adilabad (Telangana), S P Singh Baghel as Member of the Lok Sabha, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmedabad East (Gujarat), Dineshbhai Makwana as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmedabad West (Gujarat), Nilesh Dnyandev Lanke as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) and 772 more
• sansad.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Lok Sabha: sansad.in member API, status=Sitting, read 2026-10-12 (term start date not published, left empty). Rajya Sabha and ministers: Wikipedia 'List of current members of the Rajya Sabha' and 'Third Modi ministry' (fallback, read 2026-10-12; official Rajya Sabha list unreachable). Officers: Wikipedia infoboxes cross-checked with Wikidata. For: Godam Nagesh as Member of the Lok Sabha, Adilabad (Telangana), S P Singh Baghel as Member of the Lok Sabha, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Hasmukhbhai Somabhai Patel as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmedabad East (Gujarat), Dineshbhai Makwana as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmedabad West (Gujarat), Nilesh Dnyandev Lanke as Member of the Lok Sabha, Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) and 772 more
• sansad.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Rajya Sabha Secretariat, sansad.in Rajya Sabha member API (api_rs/member/sitting-members), records updated to 2026-04-22..2026-10, read 2026-10-12: sitting member, state, party, notification (term start) and expiry dates. All 244 sitting members cross-checked against this load; official source supersedes the Wikipedia fallback. For: Beeda Masthan Rao as Member of the Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh, Bhashyam Rama Krishna as Member of the Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh, Chintakayala Vijay as Member of the Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh, Golla Babu Rao as Member of the Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh, Lingamaneni Ramesh as Member of the Rajya Sabha, Andhra Pradesh and 239 more
• en.wikipedia.org · checked Oct 12, 2026 Wikipedia, Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, read 2026-10-12, citing The Hindu "Harivansh elected Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha unopposed" (17 April 2026): start of current tenure. Fallback: Wikipedia, because the Rajya Sabha officers page is JavaScript-only; consistent with the official RS list showing his nomination from 10 April 2026. For: Harivansh as Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
• newsonair.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 All India Radio News (Prasar Bharati), "EC issues notification for biennial elections to 11 Rajya Sabha seats", 29 September 2026, read 2026-10-12: 10 UP + 1 Uttarakhand seats, terms end 25 November, poll 16 October. Schedule dates (nominations 6 Oct, scrutiny 7 Oct, withdrawal 9 Oct) from Wikipedia "2026 Rajya Sabha elections" and UNI India (29 Sep 2026, quoting the UP Chief Electoral Officer). Fallback: ECI press-note page returned HTTP 406. For: General election, October 16, 2026
• legislative.gov.in · checked Oct 12, 2026 Constitution of India Art. 56, 62, 67, 68, 83: legal terms from the last sworn-in/first-sitting dates; no schedule yet announced by the Election Commission of India (eci.gov.in). For: General election, April 23, 2027, General election, June 23, 2029