Question

Which of the two houses of the Parliament exercises supreme power? In what ways is that house more powerful?​

Answer 1

Indian Parliament is bicameral in nature having two houses:

◾️Lok Sabha

◾️Rajya Sabha

Although our Constitution has assigned some special 90 to Rajya Sabha but on most of the important matters Lok Sabha is powerful than Rajya Sabha.

In case of :

(a) Ordinary Bill : Ordinary Bill can be introduced in either house of the Parliament and it needs to be passed by both the houses. But if there is a difference of opinion between the two houses, the decision is taken in ajoiht session. And since the Lok Sabha has maximum strength i. e. just double than Rajya Sabha so, the opinion of the Lok Sabha prevails in such a meeting.

(b) Money Bill : Lok Sabha enjoys more powers in financial matters like :

◾️Money bills or budget can be introduced only in Lok Sabha.

◾️If Lok Sabha passes the bill the Rajya Sabha cannot reject it, it can delay only for 14 days and after that period the bill is deemed to be passed by the Rajya Sabha.

(c) Control over political executive : Lok Sabha exercises excessive control over political executive.

◾Lok Sabha can pass a vote of no-confrdence against the majority. In that case the council of Ministers including Prime Minister have to resign.

◾Even being the upper house the Rajya Sabha does not enjoy such power.

To sum up, from all the practical points of view Lok Sabha that is the house of people is more powerful than the Rajya Sabha the council of states.

Answer 2

Here, as per the provided question we are asked to write the name of two houses of the parliament exercise supreme power –

So, as we know that our indian parliament consists up of two parts i.e. –

• Unicameral legislature
• Bicameral legislature

Now, unicameral legislature consists up of one house and bicameral legislature consists up of two houses.

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So, bicameral legislature has two houses, they're described here as follows –

• Lok Sabha
• Rajya Sabha

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Therefore, these two houses consists up of a list considered as Union list.

So, all 97 Subjects of the Union list are of national importance. Only the parliament has the exclusive power to the legislate on them. Some of the Subject in the Union list are defence, foreign affairs, war and Peace, railways, post offices, currency, foriegn exchange, etc,...

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Now, here as per the asked question Lok Sabha is considered as most powerful bicameral legislature in the terms of passing money bill and ordinary bill.