Professionals find no place in august House

Official figures show that their percentage representation of 38.74 per cent had moved up dramatically from 29.57 per cent of the tenth Lok Sabha but slid from the 40.40 of the ninth Lok Sabha. On the other hand, as many as 52 industrialists and traders (12 per cent) forayed into the lower House in the first elections, a figure which dwindled to 17 (3.3 per cent) in the sixth Lok Sabha.