A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district (constituency) to the legislature of State government in the Indian system of government. From each constituency,the people elect one representative who then becomes a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). Each state has between seven and nine MLAs for every Member of Parliament (MP) that it has in the Lok Sabha,the lower house of India's bicameral parliament. There are also members in three unicameral legislatures in Union Territories:the Delhi Legislative Assembly,Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and the Puducherry Legislative Assembly. Only a Member of the Legislative Assembly can work as a minister for more than 6 months. If a non-Member of the Legislative Assembly becomes a Chief Minister or a minister,he must become an MLA within 6 months to continue in the job. Only a Member of the Legislative Assembly can become the Speaker of the Legislature.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Chaudhary Lal Singh is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He was Minister for Forest,Environment,Ecology of J&K in PDP-BJP coalition government in J&K. He represented the Basohli in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
Madan Lal Sharma was an Indian politician.
Chaman Lal Gupta was an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir,belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He was union minister of state of defence from 2002 to 2004. Earlier,he held a portfolio of food processing and civil aviation.
Amethi is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This constituency covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967. Like its neighbouring constituency Rae Bareli,it is considered to be a bastion of the Indian National Congress. Its first member of parliament (MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the Indian National Congress (INC) who was elected in 1967 and held his seat in the next election in 1971. In the 1977 election,Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party became its MP. Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC. Later the same year,Gandhi died in a plane crash. This forced a by election in 1981 which was won by his brother,Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991,when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The subsequent by election held the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC. Sharma was re-elected in 1996. Sanjaya Sinh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi,Sonia Gandhi represented this constituency from 1999 to 2004. Her son,Rahul Gandhi,was elected in 2004. He was the fourth MP from the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980 to represent the seat. Gandhi held the seat till the 2019 election when he was defeated by a margin of 55,000 votes by the BJP's Smriti Irani. Irani was defeated in 2024 by a margin of over 1.67 lakh votes by Kishori Lal Sharma of the Indian National Congress.
The President of India is indirectly elected with Instant-runoff voting by means of an electoral college consisting of the elected members of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of the states and union territories of India. The number and value of votes are based on the population in 1971 rather than the current population,as a result of the 42nd Amendment,and extended by the 84th Amendment,with the intention to encourage family planning programs in the states by ensuring that states are not penalised for lowering their population growth and development.
The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,also known as the Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha,is the legislature of Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mohammad Akbar Lone is a Kashmiri politician who serves the state of Jammu and Kashmir and belongs to the National Conference political party.
Elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India to elect the representatives of various bodies at national,state and district levels including the 114 seat unicameral Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and the Parliament of India. The first elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir took place between 28 November and 19 December 2020 in the form of by-elections to District Development Councils and municipal and panchayat level bodies. A fresh delimitation process for assembly constituencies began in February–March 2020.
Tariq Hameed Karra is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir and was a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Srinagar. He is currently serving as the President of Jammu Kashmir PCC. he is also a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Central Shalteng constituency.
Fayaz Ahmad Mir is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament of the Rajya Sabha he represented the state of Jammu &Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. As of 2024,he is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly representing the Kupwara Assembly constituency.
Sheikh Abdul Rashid,better known as Engineer Rashid,is a Kashmiri politician,and currently member of Lok Sabha representing Baramulla constituency in Jammu and Kashmir,India. He was released on interim bail to do campaigning during the assembly elections.
Nagrota Assembly constituency is one of the 90 constituencies in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir a north state of India. Nagrota is also part of Jammu Lok Sabha constituency.
Yash Paul Kundal is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress in Jammu and Kashmir. He was the state president of Young Panthers,the youth wing of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party. He has twice been a Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,and was the Minister of Animal and Sheep Husbandry from 2002 to 2008. On 8 April 2022,he joined Aam Admi Party.
Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha,elections to the Rajya Sabha,elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies,councils and local bodies.
Hasnain Masoodi is an Indian politician from the Jammu &Kashmir National Conference Party who serves as a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. He served as a Member of the 17th Lok Sabha from Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency and was a former judge of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. He is representing Pampore constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
Devender Singh Rana was an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from Nagrota,Jammu and Kashmir Assembly constituency in Jammu district as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Rajeev Sharma is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He was a former MLA from Akhnoor Assembly constituency in Jammu district. He won the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election representing the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Sheikh Abdul Rehman is an Indian politician,survivor of the Indian partition,and former member of parliament and the legislative assembly from Jammu and Kashmir. He is notably recognized as the only Muslim to have served as the president of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS),the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Rehman has had a long and diverse political career,having been associated with several parties,including the Bharatiya Lok Dal,Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),and National Conference (NC).
