List of leaders of the opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly

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Leader of the Opposition of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Babulal Marandi
since 6 March 2025 (2025-03-06)
Style The Hon’ble
Member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
NominatorMembers of the Official Opposition of the Legislative Assembly
AppointerSpeaker of the Assembly
Term length 5 years
Till the Assembly Continues
Precursor List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Inaugural holder Stephen Marandi

The leader of the opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The current Jharkhand leader of the opposition is Babulal Marandi. [1]

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Eligibility

Official Opposition [2] is a term used in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly to designate the political party which has secured the second largest number of seats in the assembly. In order to get formal recognition, the party must have at least 10% of total membership of the Legislative Assembly. A single party has to meet the 10% seat criterion, not an alliance. Many of the other Indian state legislatures also follow this 10% rule while the rest of them prefer single largest opposition party according to the rules of their respective houses.

Role

The opposition's main role is to question the government of the day and hold them accountable to the public. The opposition is equally responsible in upholding the best interests of the people of the country. They have to ensure that the Government does not take any steps, which might have negative effects on the people of the country. [3]

The role of the opposition in legislature is basically to check the excesses of the ruling or dominant party, and not to be totally antagonistic. There are actions of the ruling party which may be beneficial to the masses and opposition is expected to support such steps. [4]

In legislature, opposition party has a major role and must act to discourage the party in power from acting against the interests of the country and the common man. They are expected to alert the population and the Government on the content of any bill, which is not in the best interests of the country.

Leaders of the opposition

No [5] PortraitName Constituency Term of office Assembly

(election)

Party
1 Basawon Singh 2000 stamp of India.jpg Basawon Singh Dehri 195219574 years, 299 days1st
(1952 election)		 Socialist Party
2 No image available.svg Sushil Kumar Bage Kolebira 20 May 195715 March 19624 years, 299 days2nd
(1957 election)		 Jharkhand Party
3 No image available.svg Kamakhya Narain Singh Barhi 16 March 196216 March 19675 years, 0 days3rd
(1962 election)		 Swatantra Party
4 No image available.svg Mahesh Prasad Singh 17 March 196726 February 19691 year, 346 days4th
(1967 election)		 Indian National Congress
5 Bhola Pawan Shastri portrait.jpg Bhola Paswan Shastri Korha 18 March 196915 March 1970362 days5th
(1969 election)		Lok Tantrik Congress
6 No image available.svg Ramanand Tiwary Shahpur 16 March 197015 March 1971364 days Samyukta Socialist Party
7 NitishKumarPayingTributeToDPRai.jpg Daroga Prasad Rai Parsa 16 March 197128 March 19721 year, 12 days Indian National Congress
8 Karpoori Thakur 1991 stamp of India.jpg Karpoori Thakur Tajpur6th
(1972 election)		 Samyukta Socialist Party
9 No image available.svg Sunil Mukherjee Patna West Communist Party of India
10 RLSY Potrait.jpg Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav Danapur 7th
(1977 election)		 Indian National Congress
11 No image available.svg Jagannath Mishra Jhanjharpur
(7) Karpoori Thakur 1991 stamp of India.jpg Karpoori Thakur Samastipur 30 June 198012 February 19887 years, 227 days8th
(1980 election)		 Janata Party (Secular)
Sonbarsha 9th
(1985 election)		 Lokdal
12 Lalu Prasad Yadav.jpg Lalu Prasad Yadav Sonpur 18 March 19897 December 1989264 days
13 No image available.svg Anup Lal Yadav Triveniganj 18 January 199019 March 199060 days
(10) No image available.svg Jagannath Mishra Jhanjharpur 20 March 199014 April 19944 years, 25 days10th
(1990 election)		 Indian National Congress
14 No image available.svg Ramashray Prasad Singh Konch29 June 199415 March 1995259 days
15 Yashwant Sinha IMF.jpg Yashwant Sinha Ranchi 17 April 199524 January 1996282 days11th
(1995 election)		 Bharatiya Janata Party
16 The Leader of Opposition, Bihar, Shri Sushil Kumar Modi in New Delhi on January 08 (cropped2).jpg Sushil Kumar Modi Patna Central 19 March 19961 March 20008 years, 9 days
15 March 200028 March 200412th
(2000 election)
17 Upendra Kushwaha in 2018 (cropped).jpg Upendra Kushwaha Jandaha 29 March 20045 March 2005341 days Janata Dal (United)

==List of leaders of the opposition of Jharkhand==

Colour key for parties
   Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
   Bharatiya Janata Party
   Indian National Congress
NoPortraitName Constituency Term [6] Assembly
(election)		Party
1 No image available.svg Stephen Marandi Dumka 24 November 200010 July 20043 years, 229 days1st
(2000 election) 		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
2 No image available.svg Haji Hussain Ansari Madhupur 2 August 20041 March 2005211 days
3 No image available.svg Sudhir Mahato Ichagarh 16 March 200518 September 20061 year, 186 days2nd
(2005 election)
4 Arjun Munda - Ranchi 2011-11-29 9195.JPG Arjun Munda Kharsawan 4 December 200629 May 20092 years, 176 days Bharatiya Janata Party
5 Rajender babu.jpg Rajendra Prasad Singh Bermo 7 January 201018 January 20133 years, 11 days3rd
(2009 election) 		Indian National Congress
(4) Arjun Munda - Ranchi 2011-11-29 9195.JPG Arjun Munda Kharsawan 19 July 201323 December 20141 year, 157 days Bharatiya Janata Party
6 Hemant Soren 2024.jpg Hemant Soren Barhait 7 January 201528 December 20194 years, 355 days4th
(2014 election) 		Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
7 Babulal Marandi Dhanwar 24 February 202016 October 20233 years, 234 days5th
(2019 election) 		Bharatiya Janata Party
8 Amar Kumar Bauri meeting the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge), Dr. Mahesh Sharma, in New Delhi (cropped).jpg Amar Kumar Bauri [7] Chandankiyari 16 October 202323 November 20241 year, 38 days
(7) Babulal Marandi [8] [9] Dhanwar 6 March 2025Incumbent258 days6th
(2024 election)

Statistics

List of leaders of the opposition by length of term
No.NamePartyLength of term
Longest continuous termTotal years of leaders of the opposition
1 Hemant Soren JMM 4 years, 355 days4 years, 355 days
2 Arjun Munda BJP 2 years, 176 days3 years, 333 days
3 Babulal Marandi BJP 3 years, 307 days3 years, 307 days
4 Stephen Marandi JMM 3 years, 229 days3 years, 229 days
5 Rajendra Prasad Singh INC 3 years, 11 days3 years, 11 days
6 Sudhir Mahato JMM 1 year, 186 days1 year, 186 days
7 Amar Kumar Bauri BJP 1 year, 38 days1 year, 38 days
8 Haji Hussain Ansari JMM 211 days211 days
(3) Babulal Marandi BJP 258 days258 days

See also

References

  1. ↑ "बाबूलाल मरांडी होंगे झारखंड विधानसभा में नेता प्रतिपक्ष | Babulal Marandi Leader of Opposition Jharkhand Assembly". Prabhat Khabar (in Hindi). 6 March 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "THE SALARY AND ALLOWANCES OF LEADERS OF OPPOSITION IN PARLIAMENT ACT, 1977 AND RULES MADE THEREUNDER". mpa.nic.in. Archived from the original on 25 September 2000.
  3. ↑ "Role of Opposition Party in Parliament". 26 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "Role of Opposition in Parliament | India". 21 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "BIHAR VIDHAN SABHA/LEADER OF OPPOSITION". vidhansabha.bih.nic.in. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "विधानसभा". Archived from the original on 26 March 2023.
  7. ↑ Outlook India (16 October 2023). "Amar Kumar Bauri Appointed As Leader Of BJP Legislative Party In Jharkhand". Archived from the original on 19 May 2024. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  8. ↑ PTI (7 March 2025). "BJP's Babulal Marandi recognised as leader of opposition in J'khand assembly". ThePrint. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  9. ↑ "BJP's Babulal Marandi recognised as leader of opposition in Jharkhand assembly". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
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