Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
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Style | The Honourable |
Status | Leader of Opposition |
Member of | Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Seat | Vidhan Bhawan |
Nominator | Members of the Official Opposition of the Legislative Assembly |
Appointer | Speaker of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Term length | 5 years |
Inaugural holder | Vishwanath Yadav Tamaskar |
Formation | 5 March 1957 |
The Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
# | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Tenure [1] | Assembly | Party | |||
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1 | Vishwanath Tamasker | Durg | 17 December 1956 | 5 March 1957 | 78 days | 1st | Praja Socialist Party | ||
2 | Chandra Pratap Tiwari | Sidhi | 1 July 1957 | 7 March 1962 | 4 years, 249 days | 2nd | |||
3 | Virendra Sakhlecha | Jawad | 28 March 1962 | 1 March 1967 | 5 years, 112 days | 3rd | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | ||
1 March 1967 | 18 July 1967 | 4th | |||||||
4 | ![]() | Shyama Charan Shukla | Rajim | 31 July 1967 | 8 September 1968 | 1 year, 39 days | Indian National Congress | ||
5 | ![]() | Dwarka Prasad Mishra | Katangi | 9 September 1968 | 16 February 1969 | 160 days | |||
(3) | Virendra Sakhlecha | Jawad | 20 March 1969 | 6 January 1970 | 292 days | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |||
6 | Vasant Sadashiv Pradhan | Dhar | 7 January 1970 | 17 March 1972 | 2 years, 70 days | ||||
7 | | Kailash Chandra Joshi | Bagli | 28 March 1972 | 30 April 1977 | 5 years, 33 days | 5th | ||
8 | ![]() | Arjun Singh | Churhat | 15 July 1977 | 17 February 1980 | 2 years, 217 days | 6th | Indian National Congress | |
9 | Sunder Lal Patwa | Sehore | 4 July 1980 | 10 March 1985 | 4 years, 249 days | 7th | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
(7) | | Kailash Chandra Joshi | Bagli | 23 March 1985 | 3 March 1990 | 4 years, 346 days | 8th | ||
(4) | ![]() | Shyama Charan Shukla | Rajim | 20 March 1990 | 15 December 1992 | 2 years, 270 days | 9th | Indian National Congress | |
10 | ![]() | Vikram Verma | Dhar | 24 December 1993 | 1 December 1998 | 4 years, 342 days | 10th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
11 | Gauri Shankar Shejwar | Sanchi | 2 February 1999 | 1 September 2002 | 3 years, 211 days | 11th | |||
12 | ![]() | Babulal Gaur | Govindpura | 4 September 2002 | 5 December 2003 | 1 year, 92 days | |||
13 | Jamuna Devi | Kukshi | 16 December 2003 | 11 December 2008 | 4 years, 361 days | 12th | Indian National Congress | ||
7 January 2009 | 24 September 2010 | 1 year, 260 days | 13th | ||||||
14 | ![]() | Ajay Arjun Singh | Churhat | 15 April 2011 | 10 December 2013 | 2 years, 239 days | |||
15 | Satyadev Katare | Ater | 9 January 2014 | 20 October 2016 | 2 years, 285 days | 14th | |||
(14) | ![]() | Ajay Arjun Singh | Churhat | 27 February 2017 | 13 December 2018 | 1 year, 289 days | |||
16 | ![]() | Gopal Bhargava | Rehli | 8 January 2019 | 23 March 2020 | 1 year, 75 days | 15th | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
17 | ![]() | Kamal Nath | Chhindwara | 19 August 2020 | 29 April 2022 | 1 year, 253 days | Indian National Congress | ||
18 | | Govind Singh | Lahar | 29 April 2022 | 16 December 2023 | 1 year, 231 days | |||
19 | Umang Singhar | Gandhwani | 16 December 2023 | Incumbent | 156 days | 16th |
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