Did you know that CPI (M) member P. K. Biju (Alathur) was among the top ten performers of the outgoing Lok Sabha in terms of participation in debates, but the topper beats him by a score more than six times higher?
Congress member K. V. Thomas, who did not get a seat this time, and actor Innocent (CPI-M independent), who is contesting again from Chalakudy, were the poorest performers among members who served the full term from Kerala.
Topper Bhairon Prasad Mishra (BJP) from Uttar Pradesh attended all sittings of the House and participated in 2095 debates. You may even wonder whether the Sabha had so many debates, considering the poor participation by many of our elected representatives. The average participation was about 67 debates nationally and 142.5 for members from Kerala.
Biju participated in 326 debates followed by RSP’s N. K. Premachandran (300) and Independent Joice George (290). On the other hand, Thomas and Innocent participated only in 42 debates each. P. K. Kunhalikutty (Muslim League) has the lowest score of nine from Kerala. It may be noted here that he was in the House only for about two years, having been elected in a by-election from Malappuram in April 2017. If we extrapolate his performance for five years, it is still the lowest from Kerala.
The outgoing Lok Sabaha has as many as 32 members who did not participate in any of the debates. They included post graduates and doctorate degree holders. They also included former Chief Ministers Shibu Soren (Jharkhand) and Kamal Nath (Madhya Pradesh) besides actor Shatrughan Sinha.
The oldest member in Lok Sabha, L. K. Advani of BJP, participated in only one debate in a span of five years. So was the youngest member Pravin Kumar Nishad of Samajwadi Party from Uttar Pradesh who incidentally is a professional graduate.
Supriya Sule of Nationalist Congress Party from Maharastra topped in terms of the questions she had asked the government in the House. She had asked as many as 1181 questions during the five-year term. Nishikant Dubey of BJP from Jharkhand presented the highest number of private members’ bills in the House— 48 against average of 2.3 bills nationally.
The following MPs had 100 per cent attendance in the House, besides Bhairon Prasad Mishra.
| Kulamani Samal | Odisha | Jagatsinghpur | Biju Janata Dal | Professional Graduate | 100% |
| Ramesh Chander Kaushik | Haryana | Sonipat | Bharatiya Janata Party | Professional Graduate | 100% |
| Bhairon Prasad Mishra | Uttar Pradesh | Banda | Bharatiya Janata Party | Inter/ Higher Secondary | 100% |
| Gopal Chinayya Shetty | Maharashtra | Mumbai-North | Bharatiya Janata Party | Under Matric | 100% |
Attendance is not marked for Ministers. Niranjan Jyoti from Uttar Pradesh had 100 per cent attendance till she became a Minister in August 2014.
Full set of sortable data at
http://www.keralaassembly.org/lok/sabha/2019/performance_2019.php4