State legislative assemblies of India

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The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhana Sabha, or Saasana Sabha, [1] is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India. In 28 states and 8 union territories, there is a unicameral legislature which is the sole legislative body. In 6 states, the legislative assembly is the lower house of their bicameral legislature with the upper house being the State Legislative Council. 5 union territories are governed directly by the Union Government of India and have no legislative body.

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Each Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is directly elected to serve 5-year terms by single-member constituencies. The Constitution of India states that a State Legislative Assembly must have no less than 60 and no more than 500 members however an exception may be granted via an Act of Parliament as is the case in the states of Goa, Sikkim, Mizoram and the union territory of Puducherry which have fewer than 60 members. A State Legislative Assembly may be dissolved in a state of emergency, by the Governor on request of the Chief Minister, or if a motion of no confidence is passed against the ruling majority party or coalition. [2]

Member of Legislative Assembly

To become a member of a State Legislative Assembly, they must have their name in the voters' list of the state for which they are contesting an election. They may not be a Member of Parliament and Member of the State Legislative Council at the same time. They should also state that there is no criminal procedures against him or her. A State Legislative Assembly holds equal legislative power with the upper house of the state legislature, the State Legislative Council, except in the area of dissolution of state government and passing of money bills, in which case the State Legislative Assembly has the ultimate authority.

Powers of legislative assemblies are given down below:

Current State Legislative Assemblies

Legislative AssemblySeat(s)House
size [4] 		Ruling partyCurrent term
Andhra Pradesh Amaravati 175 Telugu Desam Party Sixteenth
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar 60 Bharatiya Janata Party Eleventh
Assam Dispur 126 Bharatiya Janata Party Fifteenth
Bihar Patna 243 Janata Dal (United) Seventeenth
Chhattisgarh Raipur 90 Bharatiya Janata Party Sixth
Delhi New Delhi 70 Bharatiya Janata Party Eighth
Goa Panaji 40 Bharatiya Janata Party Eighth
Gujarat Gandhinagar 182 Bharatiya Janata Party Fifteenth
Haryana Chandigarh 90 Bharatiya Janata Party Fifteenth
Himachal Pradesh Shimla (summer)
Dharamshala (winter)		 68 Indian National Congress Fourteenth
Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar (summer)
Jammu (winter)		 90+5 (Nominated) Jammu & Kashmir National Conference First
Jharkhand Ranchi 81 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Fifth
Karnataka Bangalore (summer)
Belgaum (winter)		 224 Indian National Congress Sixteenth
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram 140 Communist Party of India (Marxist) Fifteenth
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal 230 Bharatiya Janata Party Sixteenth
Maharashtra Mumbai (summer)
Nagpur (winter)		 288 Bharatiya Janata Party Fifteenth
Manipur Imphal 60 Bharatiya Janata Party Twelfth
Meghalaya Shillong 60 National People's Party Eleventh
Mizoram Aizawl 40 Zoram People's Movement Ninth
Nagaland Kohima 60 Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party Fourteenth
Odisha Bhubaneshwar 147 Bharatiya Janata Party Seventeenth
Puducherry Puducherry 30+3 (Nominated) All India N.R. Congress Fifteenth
Punjab Chandigarh 117 Aam Aadmi Party Sixteenth
Rajasthan Jaipur 200 Bharatiya Janata Party Sixteenth
Sikkim Gangtok 32 Sikkim Krantikari Morcha Eleventh
Tamil Nadu Chennai 234 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Sixteenth
Telangana Hyderabad 119 Indian National Congress Third
Tripura Agartala 60 Bharatiya Janata Party Thirteenth
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 403 Bharatiya Janata Party Eighteenth
Uttarakhand Bhararisain (summer)
Dehradun (winter)		 70 Bharatiya Janata Party Fifth
West Bengal Kolkata 294 All India Trinamool Congress Seventeenth
Total—4123 (excluding 8 nominated seats)—

    State Legislative Assemblies by ruling parties

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       Bharatiya Janata Party (15)
       NDA (6)
       Indian National Congress (3)
       INDIA (6)
      Others (1)
       No legislature (5)
    Ruling partyStates/UTs
    NDA (21) [5]
    Bharatiya Janata Party 15
    Telugu Desam Party 1
    Janata Dal (United) 1
    All India N.R. Congress 1
    Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party 1
    National People's Party 1
    Sikkim Krantikari Morcha 1
    INDIA (9) [6]
    Indian National Congress 3
    Communist Party of India (Marxist) 1
    Aam Aadmi Party 1
    All India Trinamool Congress 1
    Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 1
    Jammu & Kashmir National Conference 1
    Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 1
    Others(1)
    Zoram People's Movement 1

    The Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance is in power in 21 legislative assemblies; the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance is in power in 9 legislative assemblies; 1 legislative assemblies are ruled by other parties/alliances; and 5 union territories do not have a legislative assembly.

    Former State Legislative Assemblies

    AssemblySeatPeriod activeAbolished by
    Ajmer Legislative Assembly Ajmer 1950–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Bhopal Legislative Assembly Bhopal 1949–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Bombay Legislative Assembly Bombay 1950–1960Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960.
    Coorg Legislative Assembly Mercara 1950–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Hyderabad Legislative Assembly Hyderabad 1948–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Madhya Bharat Legislative Assembly Gwalior 1948–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Madras Legislative Assembly Madras 1947–1969Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968.
    Mysore Legislative Assembly Mysore 1947–1973Mysore State (Alteration of Name) Act of 1973.
    PEPSU Legislative Assembly Patiala 1948–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Saurashtra Legislative Assembly Rajkot 1948–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly Trivandrum 1949–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.
    Vindhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly Rewa 1948–1956 States Reorganisation Act, 1956.

    See also

    References

    1. ↑ "Vidhan_Sabha". Collins English Dictionary . HarperCollins Publishers. 2014.
    2. ↑ "State Legislative Assemblies" (PDF). www.india.gov.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
    3. ↑ "Explainer: Why Jagan Reddy wants to abolish the legislative council in Andhra Pradesh". The Week .
    4. ↑ "Terms of the Houses". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
    5. ↑ "Explained: The 38 parties in the NDA fold". The Indian Express. 19 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
    6. ↑ Ghosh, Sanchari (19 July 2023). "INDIA from UPA: Opposition's push for a new name explained". mint. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
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