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The first hour of a sitting of a Lok Sabha is called the Question Hour. Starting at 11 am, members of the House, both from the Opposition as well as the ruling party/alliance, can ask the government questions on all aspects of the administration which ministers have to answer. Questions have known to have led to the government waking up to loopholes and ordering appointment of a commission or a court of enquiry.
The average number of questions asked by MPs in the first year of the 16th Lok Sabha is 73.
Some MPs who have asked zero questions:
BJP: L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, S S Ahluwalia, Vinod Khanna, Sakshi Maharaj and Shatrughan Sinha
Congress: Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and K H Muniyappa
Samajwadi Party: Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akshay Yadav, Dimple Yadav and Tej Pratap Singh Yadav
Janata Dal (Secular): HD Deve Gowda; Trinamool Congress: Sreemati Dev Varma (Moon Moon Sen) and Sudip Bandyopadhyay; and Biju Janata Dal: Tathagata Satapathy
MPs who have asked more than 100 (in some cases in excess of 200) questions:
Congress: Ashok Chavan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Shashi Tharoor
BJP: Arjun Ram Meghwal, Anurag Thakur, Meenakshi Lekhi, Kirit Somaiya, Kirti Azad, Poonam Mahajan
NCP: Supriya Sule; BJD: Bhartruhari Mahtab, Baijayant Panda and Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo; CPI (M): M B Rajesh and P K Biju; AIMIM: Asaduddin Owaisi; AIUDF: Badruddin Ajmal; INLD: Dushyant Chautala; Trinamool: Saugata Roy; Samajwadi Party: Dharmendra Yadav; Swabhimani Paksha: Raju Shetti; and RSP: N K Premchandran
