Srinagar, April 14 -- This article will analyse how the Members of Parliament from the Jammu and Kashmir fared in the 17th Lok Sabha. We use data from PRS Legislative Research on attendance, questions asked, and participation in debates to analyse the performance of the MPs. For the 17th Lok Sabha, the national average attendance was 79%, the number of questions asked by an MP on an average was 210 and the number of debates that an MP participated in on average was 47.

All three MPs representing constituencies in the Kashmir Division belonged to Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) while all the MPs representing the two constituencies of the Jammu Division belonged to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Mohammad Akbar Lone...