6th Delhi Assembly

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Legislative Assembly of Delhi
(Vidhan Sabha of Delhi)
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Type
Type
Term limits
5 year
History
FoundedFeb 2015
DisbandedJan 2020
Preceded by 5th Delhi Assembly
Succeeded by 7th Delhi Assembly
Leadership
Speaker of the Assembly
Dy. Speaker
Chief Minister
Leader of the House
Leader of the Opposition
Secretary
P. N. Mishra
Structure
Seats70
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Political groups
between 2015-2017
  AAP: 67 seats
  BJP: 3 seats
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Political groups
Since Aug 2017
  AAP: 66 seats
  BJP: 4 seats
Length of term
5 years
Elections
First-past-the-post
Last election
7 February 2015
Meeting place
Old Secretariat, Delhi, India
Website
www.delhiassembly.nic.in

The Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi was constituted on 14th Feb 2015 after the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections were concluded earlier that month. [1] Second Kejriwal ministry was the cabinet during the term of 6th Delhi Assembly.

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History

Elections for 70 assembly seats in Delhi were concluded on 07th Feb 2015 and results were announced on 10th Feb 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party got a sweeping majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party managed only 3 seats and all other parties, including the Indian National Congress could not manage to win any seats. AAP got 54.3% (4,879,127), BJP got 32.2% (2,891,510) and INC got 9.7% (867,027) of total votes polled. A total of 6 national parties, 10 state parties, 55 registered (unrecognised) parties and 1 independent candidate contested for the 70 assembly seats. [2] [1] [3]

On 14th Feb 2015, Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi. Along with Kejriwal, six ministers were also sworn in the Second Kejriwal ministry. [4] [5] [6]

In April, 2015, the speaker of the house recognized Vijender Gupta as the leader of opposition in the house. [7]

As on 28 August 2017, AAP had 66 MLA, 4 belongs to BJP.

Jarnail Singh from Aam Aadmi Party resigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal [8] Shiromani Akali Dal party member Manjinder Singh Sirsa contested on the BJP ticket and won the Rajouri Garden assembly constituency in Feb 2017 By Poll Election. [9]

AAP won the Bawana assembly constituency in Aug 2017 By Poll Election.

Office holders

#FromToPositionNameParty
012015IncumbentChief Minister Arvind Kejriwal AAP
022015IncumbentSpeaker Ram Niwas Goel AAP
032015IncumbentDeputy Speaker Rakhi Birla AAP
042015IncumbentLeader of the House Arvind Kejriwal AAP
052015IncumbentLeader of the Opposition Vijender Gupta BJP

Committees

Chairman, (2015-2020) The Estimates Committee: Dinesh Mohaniya.

List of members

No.ConstituencyName of elected MLAParty affiliationNotes
01 Adarsh Nagar Pawan Kumar Sharma AAP
02 Ambedkar Nagar Ajay Dutt AAP
03 Babarpur Gopal Rai AAP
04 Badarpur Narayan Dutt Sharma AAP
05 Badli Ajesh Yadav AAP
06 Ballimaran Imran Hussain AAP
07 Bawana Ram Chander AAP
08 Bijwasan Devinder Sehrawat AAP
09 Burari Sanjeev Jha AAP
10 Chandni Chowk Alka Lamba AAP
11 Chhatarpur Kartar Singh Tanwar AAP
12 Delhi Cantt Surinder Singh AAP
13 Deoli Prakash Jarwal AAP
14 Dwarka Adarsh Shastri AAP
15 Gandhi Nagar Anil Kumar Bajpai AAP
16 Ghonda Shri Dutt Sharma AAP
17 Gokalpur Fateh Singh AAP
18 Greater Kailash Saurabh Bharadwaj AAP
19 Hari Nagar Jagdeep Singh AAP
20 Janakpuri Rajesh Rishi AAP
21 Jangpura Praveen Kumar AAP
22 Kalkaji Avtar Singh AAP
23 Karawal Nagar Kapil Mishra AAP
24 Karol Bagh Vishesh Ravi AAP
25 Kasturba Nagar Madan Lal AAP
26 Kirari Rituraj Govind AAP
27 Kondli Manoj Kumar AAP
28 Krishna Nagar S.K. Bagga AAP
29 Laxmi Nagar Nitin Tyagi AAP
30 Madipur Girish Soni AAP
31 Malviya Nagar Somnath Bharti AAP
32 Mangol Puri Rakhi Birla AAP
33 Matia Mahal Asim Ahmed Khan AAP
34 Matiala Gulab Singh AAP
35 Mehrauli Naresh Yadav AAP
36 Model Town Akhilesh Pati Tripathi AAP
37 Moti Nagar Shiv Charan Goel AAP
38 Mundka Sukhvir Singh AAP
39 Mustafabad Jagdish BJP
40 Najafgarh Kailash Gahlot AAP
41 Nangloi Jat Raghuvinder Shokeen AAP
42 Nerela Sharad Kumar AAP
43 New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal AAP
44 Okhla Amanatullah Khan AAP
45 Palam Bhavna Gaur AAP
46 Patel Nagar Hazari Lal Chauhan AAP
47 Patparganj Manish Sisodia AAP
48 R.K. Puram Parmila Tokas AAP
49 Rajinder Nagar Vijender Garg Vijay AAP
50 Rajouri Garden Jarnail Singh AAP resigned on 6 January 2017 to contest against sitting CM Parkash Singh Badal [8]
Manjinder Singh Sirsa BJP won by-election
51 Rithala Mohinder Goyal AAP
52 Rohini Vijender Gupta BJP
53 Rohtas Nagar Sarita Singh AAP
54 Sadar Bazar Som Dutt AAP
55 Sangam Vihar Dinesh Mohaniya AAP
56 Seelampur Mohammad Ishraque AAP
57 Seemapuri Rajendra Pal Gautam AAP
58 Shahdara Ram Niwas Goel AAP
59 Shakur Basti Satyendra Kumar Jain AAP
60 Shalimar Bagh Bandana Kumari AAP
61 Sultan Pur Majra Sandeep Kumar AAP
62 Tilak Nagar Jarnail Singh AAP
63 Timarpur Pankaj Pushkar AAP
64 Tri Nagar Jitender Singh Tomar AAP
65 Trilokpuri Raju Dhingan AAP
66 Tughlakabad Sahi Ram AAP
67 Uttam Nagar Naresh Balyan AAP
68 Vikaspuri Mahinder Yadav AAP
69 Vishwas Nagar Om Prakash Sharma BJP
70 Wazirpur Rajesh Gupta AAP

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