Parliament Monsoon Session Begins: Who Are The Most Active MPs? Which Parties Lead, Which Lag Behind In Attendance

Published 20 July 2026 · politics

Parliament Monsoon Session Begins: Who Are The Most Active MPs? Which Parties Lead, Which Lag Behind In Attendance Published By, Last Updated: July 20, 2026

Parliament Monsoon Session Begins: Who Are The Most Active MPs? Which Parties Lead, Which Lag Behind In Attendance Published By, Last Updated: July 20, 2026, 20:59 IST As Parliament's Monsoon Session begins, a new attendance report reveals which MPs and political parties led, and where BJP and Congress stood. Smaller Parties Lead Attendance as Monsoon Session Begins. (File image: Sansad TV) As Parliament’s Monsoon Session gets underway, political parties are preparing to raise a range of issues, including the Ram temple and NEET-UG paper leak controversies. Amid expectations of a stormy session, the attendance of Members of Parliament (MPs) in both Houses assumes added importance. An analysis of attendance records from the previous Budget Session, which concluded in April, by the NGO Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), published by Times of India, shows that smaller political parties with only a few MPs recorded the highest average attendance. Smaller parties top Lok Sabha attendance According to the analysis, 101 Lok Sabha MPs signed the attendance register on all 31 sitting days of the Budget Session. This accounts for less than a quarter, or around 21 per cent, of the 483 MPs whose attendance records were publicly available. Among political parties, the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP), represented by its lone MP Hanuman Beniwal from Nagaur, and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), with two MPs — Chandan Chauhan from Bijnor and Rajkumar Sangwan from Baghpat — recorded a perfect attendance of 100 per cent across all 31 sittings.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, or CPI(ML-L), ranked second, with both its MPs attending 30 of the 31 sittings. The Zoram People’s Movement, which has one MP, also recorded attendance on 30 sitting days. The Samajwadi Party secured the third position, with its 37 MPs recording an average attendance of 28.43 days during the session. Less than half attended 90% or more sittings The report found that only 45.7 per cent of the 483 Lok Sabha members attended between 90 and 100 per cent of the sittings or signed the attendance register for those days. The CHRI analysis examined attendance data available on the websites of both Houses to identify trends in attendance across political parties during the Budget Session. Among the larger national parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the single-largest party in the Lok Sabha, recorded an average attendance of 26.46 sittings per MP based on records of 191 members. The Congress, the largest Opposition party, registered an average attendance of 23.13 sittings, based on records available for 97 MPs. Among regional parties with more than 20 MPs during the Budget Session, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) averaged only 15 sittings per MP, while the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), with 22 MPs, recorded an even lower average of 14.64 sittings.