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stability, the strength of the ruling party/ruling alliance needs to be gauged in both the Houses. Furthermore, no study has been attempted to establish the relationship of political stability and economic growth for the states in India. Many theoretical studies have attempted to define political stability at the state level; but none of them have attempted to measure the impact of political stability and economic growth/development. (Salvi, 2005; Nooruddin and Chhibber, 2008). Let us understand first, the structure of Indian Federalism, the formation of Indian states and the existing multi-party system of Indian polity. a) Indian Polity: Federal Structure After independence, India adopted the parliamentary form of democracy with a federal character. The Constituent Assembly or the Parliament in India is bi-cameral in nature. The Lower House is the House of the People, called as Lok Sabha; and the Upper House is the Council of States, called as Rajya Sabha (Nag, 2013). Lok Sabha is representative of people in India. The members are elected representatives by simple majority in general elections. The maximum number of elected membership for Lok Sabha is 552 elected members and 2 Anglo-Indian members nominated by the President, if not already returned hrough election. Seats are allotted to each state in proportion to its population. Presently, there are 543 members of the Lok Sabha. The tenure of Lok Sabha is of five years (Nag, 2013). The List of Lok Sabha seats from each of the states is given in Table 1. Table 1: Lok Sabha Seats in each State No. Name of States/Union Territories No. of Constituencies 1 Andhra Pradesh 25 2 Arunachal Pradesh 2 3 Assam 14 4 Bihar 40 5 Chhattisgarh 11 6 Goa 2 7 NCT of Delhi 7 8 Gujarat 26 9 Haryana 10 10 Himachal Pradesh 4 11 Jammu and Kashmir 6 12 Jharkhand 14 13 Karnataka 28 14 Kerala 20 15 Madhya Pradesh 29 16 Maharashtra 48 17 Manipur 2 18 Meghalaya 2 19 Mizoram 1 20 Nagaland 1 21 Odisha 21 22 Punjab 13 23 Puducherry 1 24 Rajasthan 25 25 Sikkim 1 26 Tamil Nadu 38 27 Telangana 17 28 Tripura 2 29 Uttar Pradesh 80 30 Uttarakhand 5 31 West Bengal 42 32 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1 33 Chandigarh 1 34 Dadra and Nagar Haveli 1 35 Daman and Diu 1 36 Lakshadweep 1 Total 542 Source: https://loksabha.nic.in/members/StateWiseStatisticalList.aspx How Political Stability Affects Economic Growth in India 18 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue IV Version I Year 2022 ( ) B © 2022 Global Journals