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legislative Council

Some states have bi-cameral Legislature ( having two Houses). The six states having two Houses are Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar.  Legislative Council (vidhan Parishad) is a permanent body like the council of state (Rajya Sabha). 

GOVERNOR GENERALS AND VICEROYS(1858-1947).

GOVERNOR GENERALS AND VICEROYS(1858-1947). Lord Canning (1858-1862). Lord Elgini(1862-1863).  Sir John Lawrence (1864-1869). Lord Mayo(1869-1872).  Lord Northbrook (1872-1876).  Lord  Lytton(1876-1880).  Lord Ripon (1880-1884).  Lord Dufferin(1884-1888).  Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894).  Lord Elgin II (1894-1899).  Lord Curzon (1899-1905).  Lord Minto II (1905-1910).  Lord Hardings (1910-1916).  Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921).  Lord Reading (1921-1926).  Lord Irwin (1926-1931).  Lord willingdon(1931-1936).  Lord Linlithgow(1936-1943).  Lord Wavell(1943-1947).  Lord Mountbatten(March-August 1947).

Prime Minister of India

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister and the longest serving so far. (15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964).    The first and the only acting Prime Minister was Gulzarilal Nanda. (27 May 1964 - 9 June 1964). Lal Bahadur Shastri was the PM which died abroad, while in office at Takshent. ( 9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966). Gulzarilal Nanda has acted twice as the Prime Minister.  ( 11 January 1966 - 24 January 1966). Chaudhary Charan Singh was the only PM who did not face Parliament, while being in office.  ( 28 July 1979 - 14 January 1980). The Youngest Prime Minister was Rajeev Gandhi ( 31 October 1984 - 2 December 1989) and the oldest Prime Minister was Morarji Desai(24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979). AB Vajpayee government had the shortest tenure. (13days).  (16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996). V.P.Singh was the first Prime Minister to loose-confidence of the House.  (2 December 1989 - 10 November 1990).

Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha at present consists of 543 members (530 members are directly elected from the states and 13 from Union Territories.  The Lok Sabha is the Lower House of the Parliament and it's first sitting took place on 13th May 1952.