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