Nehru-Gandhi family in Lok Sabha
– Photo: AMAR UJALA
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Priyanka Gandhi has taken oath as MP. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla administered him the oath. With this, another member of the Gandhi family has entered the country’s Parliament. Priyanka Gandhi is the 16th member of the Nehru family to be elected to the Lok Sabha. This has never happened in the parliamentary history of the country when at least one member of the Gandhi family has not reached the Lok Sabha. There have also been such occasions when 5-5 members belonging to the Gandhi-Nehru family reached the Lok Sabha together.
After Rahul Gandhi in the current Lok Sabha, his sister Priyanka also reached Parliament. Rahul and Priyanka’s mother Sonia Gandhi has been a Lok Sabha MP for a long time. At present she is a Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan. This will be the first time that the Gandhi family mother and her two children will be MPs together. Another history was repeated as soon as Priyanka and Rahul sat together in the House. 71 years ago, till 1953, the brother-sister pair of Jawahar Lal Nehru and Vijayalakshmi Pandit were seen in the House. Now after 71 years, the brothers and sisters of the Nehru-Gandhi family were seen together again.
Which faces of Nehru-Gandhi family reached which Lok Sabha from the first Lok Sabha till now? In which Lok Sabha did this family have the highest representation? Apart from Congress, from which other parties were people of Nehru-Gandhi family elected? Which was the face of the family who climbed the stairs of Parliament after defeating the Congress candidate? Let us know the answers to all these questions…
