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SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROFILE OF PARLIAMENTARIANS AND MEMBERS OF STATE LEGISLATURE

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROFILE OF PARLIAMENTARIANS AND MEMBERS OF STATE LEGISLATURE 


Introduction
  1. profile gives us indication of society
  2. no difference in profile of MPs and MLAs
  3. no difference in Upper house (peter sober) and lower house (peter drunk)
  4. Shankar and Rodrigues: divided changing profile
    1. phase 1 (till 1967)
      1. brahmins dominated parliament
      2. minorities, OBCs, women under-represented
      3. reservation for SCs and STs assured their presence
      4. most of them graduates from foreign university including SCs
      5. lawyers were more in no.
    2. phase 2 : 1967-1989 (phase of transition)
      1. due to state reorganisation, GR and deepening of democracy
      2. rise of OBCs: 1st democratic upsurge
      3. agriculturists were in majority
      4. politics became full time profession
        1. youth entered due to JP movement and sanjay gandhi's youth congress
      5. women, minorities still under-represented
    3. phase 3: from 1989 (phase of plebinisation)
      1. Prof. Yogendra Yadav: 2nd democratic upsurge
      2. OBCs, agriculturalists dominate
      3. women, minorities under represented
      4. presence of people of criminal background: criminalisation of politics. 


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