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Original Publish Date: 26th April, 2021

Updated on: 28 September, 2021




LOK SABHA QUESTION ANALYSIS

It contains 276129 questions from ls13 to ls16

Main variables

##  [1] "V1"                   "Unnamed: 0"           "ID"                  
##  [4] "all_members"          "ls_term"              "case"                
##  [7] "Constituency_Name"    "State_Name"           "Sex"                 
## [10] "Party"                "Constituency_Type"    "Q_No"                
## [13] "Q_Link"               "starred_unstarred"    "date"                
## [16] "ministry"             "member"               "subject"             
## [19] "pg.no"                "Question"             "Answer"              
## [22] "Year"                 "constituency_Present"

Breakdown of Questions by LS wise

## # A tibble: 4 x 2
##   ls_term count
##     <int> <int>
## 1      13 73456
## 2      14 66371
## 3      15 79401
## 4      16 56901

Year by year break-up of number of Questions

State Level Question Analysis

Breakup by State Number of Questions

MEAN NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ASKED STATE WISE

MINISTRY WISE QUESTIONS ASKED (TOP 5)

ALL TERMS

## # A tibble: 5 x 2
##   ministry                   count
##   <chr>                      <int>
## 1 FINANCE                    18876
## 2 RAILWAYS                   16649
## 3 AGRICULTURE                14842
## 4 HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE  14807
## 5 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 14005

Loksabha13

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term ministry                                  count
##     <int> <chr>                                     <int>
## 1      13 FINANCE                                    5114
## 2      13 AGRICULTURE                                4361
## 3      13 RAILWAYS                                   4073
## 4      13 HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE                  3934
## 5      13 COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  3670

LOKSABHA 14

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term ministry                  count
##     <int> <chr>                     <int>
## 1      14 FINANCE                    4824
## 2      14 RAILWAYS                   4574
## 3      14 HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE  3839
## 4      14 AGRICULTURE                3766
## 5      14 HOME AFFAIRS               2973

LOKSABHA 15

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term ministry                   count
##     <int> <chr>                      <int>
## 1      15 FINANCE                     5391
## 2      15 RAILWAYS                    4496
## 3      15 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT  4411
## 4      15 HOME AFFAIRS                4301
## 5      15 HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   4283

LOKSABHA 16

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term ministry                   count
##     <int> <chr>                      <int>
## 1      16 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT  3568
## 2      16 FINANCE                     3547
## 3      16 RAILWAYS                    3506
## 4      16 HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   2751
## 5      16 HOME AFFAIRS                2710

PARTY WISE QUESTIONS ASKED (TOP 5)

ALL TERMS

##   Party Questions
## 1   BJP     84971
## 2   INC     66785
## 3   SHS     13333
## 4   CPM     11331
## 5   TDP     10780

Loksabha13

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term Party Questions
##     <int> <chr>     <int>
## 1      13 BJP       19905
## 2      13 INC       18121
## 3      13 TDP        7000
## 4      13 CPM        3900
## 5      13 SHS        3788

LOKSABHA 14

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term Party Questions
##     <int> <chr>     <int>
## 1      14 BJP       18703
## 2      14 INC       16182
## 3      14 CPM        3675
## 4      14 SHS        3531
## 5      14 SP         3424

LOKSABHA 15

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term Party Questions
##     <int> <chr>     <int>
## 1      15 INC       27433
## 2      15 BJP       19714
## 3      15 BSP        3230
## 4      15 JD(U)      3211
## 5      15 SHS        3109

LOKSABHA 16

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   ls_term [1]
##   ls_term Party Questions
##     <int> <chr>     <int>
## 1      16 BJP       26649
## 2      16 ADMK       6389
## 3      16 INC        5049
## 4      16 SHS        2905
## 5      16 BJD        1887

PARTY WISE QUESTIONS ASKED TO MINISTRY (TOP 5)

BJP

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   Party [1]
##   Party ministry                   Questions
##   <chr> <chr>                          <int>
## 1 BJP   RAILWAYS                        5676
## 2 BJP   FINANCE                         5256
## 3 BJP   AGRICULTURE                     4636
## 4 BJP   HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE       4411
## 5 BJP   HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT      4312

INC QUESTIONS

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   Party [1]
##   Party ministry                   Questions
##   <chr> <chr>                          <int>
## 1 INC   FINANCE                         4836
## 2 INC   AGRICULTURE                     3607
## 3 INC   HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE       3599
## 4 INC   RAILWAYS                        3472
## 5 INC   HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT      3426

CPM

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   Party [1]
##   Party ministry                   Questions
##   <chr> <chr>                          <int>
## 1 CPM   RAILWAYS                         802
## 2 CPM   FINANCE                          779
## 3 CPM   AGRICULTURE                      651
## 4 CPM   HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE        621
## 5 CPM   HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT       459

SHS

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   Party [1]
##   Party ministry                   Questions
##   <chr> <chr>                          <int>
## 1 SHS   FINANCE                          932
## 2 SHS   RAILWAYS                         805
## 3 SHS   HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE        781
## 4 SHS   AGRICULTURE                      741
## 5 SHS   HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT       740

JDU

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   Party [1]
##   Party ministry                  Questions
##   <chr> <chr>                         <int>
## 1 JD(U) FINANCE                         646
## 2 JD(U) HOME AFFAIRS                    422
## 3 JD(U) RAILWAYS                        420
## 4 JD(U) AGRICULTURE                     407
## 5 JD(U) HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE       407

TOP 5 MPS QUESTIONS ASKED (TOP 5)

ALL TERMS

## # A tibble: 5 x 3
## # Groups:   all_members [5]
##   all_members                            Party Total_Questions
##   <chr>                                  <chr>           <int>
## 1 Owaisi Shri Asaduddin                  AIMIM            1384
## 2 Ahir Shri Hansraj Gangaram             BJP              1179
## 3 UMMAREDDY VENKATESWARLU                TDP              1117
## 4 Siddeswara Shri Gowdar Mallikarjunappa BJP               990
## 5 AMBATI BRAHMANAIAH                     TDP               891

Loksabha13

## # A tibble: 5 x 4
## # Groups:   all_members, ls_term [5]
##   all_members              ls_term Party Total_Questions
##   <chr>                      <int> <chr>           <int>
## 1 UMMAREDDY VENKATESWARLU       13 TDP              1117
## 2 AMBATI BRAHMANAIAH            13 TDP               891
## 3 SULTAN SALAHUDDIN OWAISI      13 AIMIM             841
## 4 RAMDAS ATHAWALE               13 IND               831
## 5 RAJO SINGH                    13 INC               727

LOKSABHA 14

## # A tibble: 5 x 4
## # Groups:   all_members, ls_term [5]
##   all_members                            ls_term Party  Total_Questions
##   <chr>                                    <int> <chr>            <int>
## 1 Kharventhan Shri Salarapatty Kuppusamy      14 INC                853
## 2 Athawale Shri Ramdas                        14 RPI(A)             771
## 3 Reddy Shri Karunakara G.                    14 BJP                700
## 4 Tripathy Shri Braja Kishore                 14 BJD                629
## 5 Ahir Shri Hansraj Gangaram                  14 BJP                610

LOKSABHA 15

## # A tibble: 5 x 4
## # Groups:   all_members, ls_term [5]
##   all_members                      ls_term Party Total_Questions
##   <chr>                              <int> <chr>           <int>
## 1 Ramasubbu Shri S.                     15 INC               518
## 2 Owaisi Shri Asaduddin                 15 AIMIM             511
## 3 Maadam Shri Vikrambhai Arjanbhai      15 INC               499
## 4 Ahir Shri Hansraj Gangaram            15 BJP               488
## 5 Sugavanam Shri E.G.                   15 DMK               482

LOKSABHA 16

## # A tibble: 5 x 4
## # Groups:   all_members, ls_term [5]
##   all_members             ls_term Party Total_Questions
##   <chr>                     <int> <chr>           <int>
## 1 Owaisi Shri Asaduddin        16 AIMIM             273
## 2 Kothapalli Smt. Geetha       16 YSRCP             269
## 3 Nayak Shri B.V.              16 INC               256
## 4 Patle Smt. Kamla Devi        16 BJP               256
## 5 Venugopal Dr. Ponnusamy      16 ADMK              256