The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly,also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha,is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand,one of the 28 states of India. It is seated at Dehradun,the winter capital,and Bhararisain,the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The total strength of the assembly is 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
Elections for the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in Uttarakhand state,India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The legislative assembly of Uttarakhand creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India. In addition,the state legislature may be dismissed by the Parliament according to Article 356 of the Indian Constitution and President's rule may be imposed.
Dinesh Dhanai is an Indian politician. He has run as an independent MLA in Tehri (2012-2017) and served as a minister in the last Congress government in Uttarakhand.
Govind Singh Dotasra is the president of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee. He was appointed as Minister of State for primary and secondary education(Independent Charge),Tourism and Devasthan in 2018 Government of Rajasthan. Later on 20th November 2021 he resigned from his ministry post respecting Party's one man one post policy. He is a member of 15th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and a former chief whip of the Indian National Congress party in that Assembly. He is representing the Laxmangarh constituency of Sikar district of Rajasthan since 2008 and has been a member of the INC since 1981.
Dushyant Singh Chautala is a Jannayak Janta Party politician and current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the president and co-founder of the Jannayak Janata Party. He represents Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly,and was sworn-in as Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana after making an alliance with Bhartiya Janata Party in the 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election.
Shoorveer Singh Sajwan is an is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress,in the state of Uttarakhand. He won three legislative elections in 1985,1993 and 2002. He belongs to village Panchoor which comes under Devprayag legislative Assembly. In 1985 he won his first election from Devprayag legislative assembly and after that he won his second term from Tehri legislative assembly constituency. After Uttarakhand state separated from Uttar Pradesh he won the first election from Rishikesh legislative Assembly in 2002. He is one of the senior leader in Uttarakhand Congress. In 2017 state election he filed his nomination as independent candidate from Devprayag constituency,but returned to Congress in 2019.
Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri was an Indian politician. He was the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Uttarakhand in India from 2012 to 2017. He was also MLA of the Karnprayag constituency from 2012 to 2017 and Badrinath constituency from 2002 to 2007.
Dhan Singh Negi is an Indian politician and member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly representing the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). Previously,Negi was member of BJP.
Colonel Ajay Kothiyal,KC,SC,VSM (Retd) is an Indian politician and a former officer of the Indian Army. He is leader of Aam Aadmi Party and was the CM Candidate for 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assebly elections. He is also a mountaineer and philanthropist,and was the principal of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM),Uttarakhand.
Arjun Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. He contested the 2019 Indian general election as a BJP candidate and won.
Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress party from Madhya Pradesh. Hailing from the Chambal region,he has been a four-time Member of Legislative Assembly of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Bhind constituency since 1990. Previously,he had served the 13th Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly as the deputy leader of the opposition and as the leader of the opposition. Prior to that,he was a minister in Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh's cabinet between 1998 and 2003.
Rajkumar is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand. He was a member of Indian National Congress until 2021. He resigned from his seat in Purola assembly constituency and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in September 2021.
Adesh Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician and a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from Jaspur from the Indian National Congress. He won the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election from the Indian National Congress and formerly served as party member for the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was re-elected in 2022.
Gangotri is one of the 70 assembly constituencies of Uttarakhand a northern state of India. Gangotri is part of Tehri Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency. The seat is currently vacant as the MLA Gopal Singh Rawat died due to Cancer on 21 April 2021.
Uttarkashi Legislative Assembly constituency was a part of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1974 to 2000. It became a part of the Interim Uttarakhand Assembly from 2000 to 2002.
Gopal Singh Rawat was an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. Rawat was elected as a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from Gangotri (constituency) in 2007 and 2017. Rawat defeated Vijaypal Singh Sajwan of Indian National Congress by 9,610 votes in 2017 Uttarakhand Assembly election. Rawat died from Cancer aged 60.
Sukhpal Singh Bhullar is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress. In 2017,he was elected as the member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Khemkaran South Assembly Constituency.
Mayukh Mahar is an Indian politician who is the current representative from the Pithoragarh legislative constituency in Uttarakhand State Legislative assembly. He is a member of Indian National Congress. Currently,he is the MLA representing Pithoragarh State Legislative Constituency. Ethnically,he is a Kumaoni and a Kshatriya Rajput. He was elected as MLA from Pithoragarh constituency for the first time in 2012. Then,in 2017 assembly elections,he got defeated by Prakash Pant. Afterwards,in 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Elections,he again came to power,defeating Chandra Pant from Bharatiya Janata Party
