6th Delhi Assembly

6th Legislative Assembly of Delhi
6th Legislative Assembly of Delhi
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 year
History
Founded	Feb 2015
Disbanded	Jan 2020
Preceded by	5th Delhi Assembly
Succeeded by	7th Delhi Assembly
Leadership
Speaker of the Assembly	Ram Niwas Goel, AAP
Dy. Speaker	Rakhi Birla, AAP
Chief Minister	Arvind Kejriwal, AAP
Leader of the House	Arvind Kejriwal, AAP
Leader of the Opposition	Vijender Gupta, BJP
Secretary	P. N. Mishra
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	between 2015-2017; AAP: 67 seats BJP: 3 seats
Political groups	Since Aug 2017; AAP: 66 seats BJP: 4 seats
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	First-past-the-post
Last election	7 February 2015
Next election	2020
Meeting place
	Old Secretariat, Delhi, India
Website
	www.delhiassembly.nic.in

Last updated November 28, 2025

The Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 14 February 2015 after the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections were concluded earlier that month.^[1] Second Kejriwal ministry was the cabinet during the term of 6th Delhi Assembly.

History

Elections for 70 assembly seats of the Delhi Legislative Assembly were concluded on 7 February 2015 and results were announced on 10 February 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party got a sweeping majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party managed only 3 seats and all other parties, including the Indian National Congress, could not manage to win any seats. AAP got 54.3% (4,879,127), BJP got 32.2% (2,891,510) and INC got 9.7% (867,027) of the total votes polled. A total of 6 national parties, 10 state parties, 55 registered (unrecognised) parties and 1 independent candidate contested for the 70 assembly seats.^[2]^[1]^[3]

On 14 February 2015, Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi. Along with Kejriwal, six ministers were also sworn in the Second Kejriwal ministry.^[4]^[5]^[6]

In April 2015, the speaker of the house recognized Vijender Gupta as the leader of opposition in the house.^[7]

Jarnail Singh from Aam Aadmi Party resigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal.^[8] Shiromani Akali Dal party member Manjinder Singh Sirsa contested on a BJP ticket and won the Rajouri Garden assembly constituency in Feb 2017 By Poll Election.^[9]

AAP won the Bawana assembly constituency in the August 2017 by-polls.

As on 28 August 2017, AAP had 66 MLA, 4 belongs to BJP.

Office holders


#	From	To	Position	Name	Party
01	2015	Incumbent	Chief Minister	Arvind Kejriwal	AAP
02	2015	Incumbent	Speaker	Ram Niwas Goel	AAP
03	2015	Incumbent	Deputy Speaker	Rakhi Birla	AAP
04	2015	Incumbent	Leader of the Opposition	Vijender Gupta	BJP

Committees

Chairman, (2015–2020) The Estimates Committee: Dinesh Mohaniya.

List of members

No.	Constituency	Name of elected MLA		Notes
01	Adarsh Nagar	Pawan Kumar Sharma	AAP
02	Ambedkar Nagar (SC)	Ajay Dutt	AAP
03	Babarpur	Gopal Rai	AAP
04	Badarpur	Narayan Dutt Sharma	AAP
05	Badli	Ajesh Yadav	AAP
06	Ballimaran	Imran Hussain	AAP
07	Bawana (SC)	Ram Chander	AAP
08	Bijwasan	Devinder Sehrawat	AAP
09	Burari	Sanjeev Jha	AAP
10	Chandni Chowk	Alka Lamba	AAP
11	Chhatarpur	Kartar Singh Tanwar	AAP
12	Delhi Cantt	Surinder Singh	AAP
13	Deoli (SC)	Prakash Jarwal	AAP
14	Dwarka	Adarsh Shastri	AAP
15	Gandhi Nagar	Anil Kumar Bajpai	AAP
16	Ghonda	Shri Dutt Sharma	AAP
17	Gokalpur (SC)	Fateh Singh	AAP
18	Greater Kailash	Saurabh Bharadwaj	AAP
19	Hari Nagar	Jagdeep Singh	AAP
20	Janakpuri	Rajesh Rishi	AAP
21	Jangpura	Praveen Kumar	AAP
22	Kalkaji	Avtar Singh	AAP
23	Karawal Nagar	Kapil Mishra	AAP
24	Karol Bagh (SC)	Vishesh Ravi	AAP
25	Kasturba Nagar	Madan Lal	AAP
26	Kirari	Rituraj Govind	AAP
27	Kondli (SC)	Manoj Kumar	AAP
28	Krishna Nagar	S.K. Bagga	AAP
29	Laxmi Nagar	Nitin Tyagi	AAP
30	Madipur (SC)	Girish Soni	AAP
31	Malviya Nagar	Somnath Bharti	AAP
32	Mangol Puri (SC)	Rakhi Birla	AAP
33	Matia Mahal	Asim Ahmed Khan	AAP
34	Matiala	Gulab Singh	AAP
35	Mehrauli	Naresh Yadav	AAP
36	Model Town	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi	AAP
37	Moti Nagar	Shiv Charan Goel	AAP
38	Mundka	Sukhvir Singh	AAP
39	Mustafabad	Jagdish Pradhan	BJP
40	Najafgarh	Kailash Gahlot	AAP
41	Nangloi Jat	Raghuvinder Shokeen	AAP
42	Nerela	Sharad Kumar	AAP
43	New Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal	AAP
44	Okhla	Amanatullah Khan	AAP
45	Palam	Bhavna Gaur	AAP
46	Patel Nagar (SC)	Hazari Lal Chauhan	AAP
47	Patparganj	Manish Sisodia	AAP
48	R.K. Puram	Parmila Tokas	AAP
49	Rajinder Nagar	Vijender Garg Vijay	AAP
50	Rajouri Garden	Jarnail Singh	AAP	resigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting PJ CM Parkash Singh Badal ^[8]
50	Rajouri Garden	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	BJP	won by-election
51	Rithala	Mohinder Goyal	AAP
52	Rohini	Vijender Gupta	BJP
53	Rohtas Nagar	Sarita Singh	AAP
54	Sadar Bazar	Som Dutt	AAP
55	Sangam Vihar	Dinesh Mohaniya	AAP
56	Seelampur	Mohammad Ishraque	AAP
57	Seemapuri (SC)	Rajendra Pal Gautam	AAP
58	Shahdara	Ram Niwas Goel	AAP
59	Shakur Basti	Satyendra Kumar Jain	AAP
60	Shalimar Bagh	Bandana Kumari	AAP
61	Sultan Pur Majra (SC)	Sandeep Kumar	AAP
62	Tilak Nagar	Jarnail Singh	AAP
63	Timarpur	Pankaj Pushkar	AAP
64	Tri Nagar	Jitender Singh Tomar	AAP
65	Trilokpuri (SC)	Raju Dhingan	AAP
66	Tughlakabad	Sahi Ram	AAP
67	Uttam Nagar	Naresh Balyan	AAP
68	Vikaspuri	Mahinder Yadav	AAP
69	Vishwas Nagar	Om Prakash Sharma	BJP
70	Wazirpur	Rajesh Gupta	AAP

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References

1 2 "Election Results". Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "Statistical Reports" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "Comprehensive Election results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "Arvind Kejriwal takes oath". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "Six Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "Arvind Kejriwal's cabinet". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
↑ "BJP's Vijendra Gupta Named Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly". NDTV. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
1 2 "Assembly election: AAP's Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh quits to take on Punjab CM".
↑ "Delhi's Rajouri Garden bypoll: BJP wins by a margin of 14,652 votes, AAP concedes third defeat". The Indian Express. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
↑ "Election result". Election commission of India website. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

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[Election_Results-1] 1 2 "Election Results". Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[Statistical_Reports-2] "Statistical Reports" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[Comprehensive_Election_results-3] "Comprehensive Election results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[Arvind_Kejriwal_takes_oath-4] "Arvind Kejriwal takes oath". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[Six_Ministers_sworn_in-5] "Six Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[Arvind_Kejriwal's_cabinet-6] "Arvind Kejriwal's cabinet". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

[7] "BJP's Vijendra Gupta Named Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly". NDTV. Retrieved 11 February 2020.

[Jarnail-8] 1 2 "Assembly election: AAP's Delhi MLA Jarnail Singh quits to take on Punjab CM".

[9] "Delhi's Rajouri Garden bypoll: BJP wins by a margin of 14,652 votes, AAP concedes third defeat". The Indian Express. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2022.

[Election_result-10] "Election result". Election commission of India website. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

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Assemblies	First (1993–98) Second (1998–2003) Third (2003–08) Fourth (2008–13) Fifth (2013–14) Sixth (2015–20) Seventh (2020–2025) Eighth (2025–)
Constituencies	A Adarsh Nagar Ambedkar Nagar B Babarpur Badarpur Badli Ballimaran Bawana Bijwasan Burari C Chandni Chowk Chhatarpur D Delhi Cantt Deoli Dwarka G Gandhi Nagar Ghonda Gokalpur Greater Kailash H Hari Nagar J Janakpuri Jangpura K Kalkaji Karawal Nagar Karol Bagh Kasturba Nagar Kirari Kondli Krishna Nagar L Laxmi Nagar M Madipur Malviya Nagar Mangolpuri Matia Mahal Matiala Mehrauli Model Town Moti Nagar Mundka Mustafabad N Najafgarh Nangloi Jat Narela New Delhi O Okhla P Palam Patel Nagar Patparganj R R. K. Puram Rajendra Nagar Rajouri Garden Rithala Rohini Rohtas Nagar S Sadar Bazar Sangam Vihar Seelampur Seemapuri Shahdara Shakur Basti Shalimar Bagh Sultan Pur Majra T Tilak Nagar Timarpur Tri Nagar Trilokpuri Tughlakabad U Uttam Nagar V Vikaspuri Vishwas Nagar W Wazirpur
Former constituencies	Geeta Colony Yamuna Vihar Sahibabad Daulatpur