Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

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Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha
4th Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	14 February 2002
Preceded by	Interim Uttarakhand Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Premchand Aggarwal, BJP since 2017
Deputy Speaker	Raghunath Singh Chauhan, BJP since 2017
Leader of the House	Pushkar Singh Dhami, BJP since 4 July 2021
Leader of the Opposition	Pritam Singh, INC since 22 July 2021
Chief Secretary	sukhwinder singh shandhu IAS[1]
Structure
Seats	70
Political groups	Government (57)   BJP (56)   IND (1) Opposition (11)   INC (10)   IND (1) Vacant (2)   Vacant (2)
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	15 February 2017
Next election	2022
Redistricting	2012
Meeting place
Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Gairsain (summer) Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Dehradun (winter)
Website
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
Constitution
Constitution of India

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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 Gairsain, the summer capital of Uttarakhand. The total strength of the assembly is 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

As of 4 July 2021, Pushkar Singh Dhami is the current Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Leader of the House.^[2] The Speaker of the Assembly is Premchand Aggarwal. Baby Rani Maurya is the current Governor of Uttarakhand.

Between 2002 and 2020, Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly had 71 seats, including one reserved seat for the member of Anglo-Indian community that was abolished on 25 January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2019, reducing the strength of Assembly from 71 to 70 seats.^[3]

Assembly election results[]

List of Assemblies[]

The following is the list of all the Uttarakhand Legislative Assemblies^[4]

2016 Assembly suspension[]

In March 2016, capping a nine-day high-voltage political drama, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government brought Uttarakhand under President's rule citing a constitutional breakdown in the wake of a rebellion in then state-ruling Indian National Congress, which slammed the decision calling it a "murder of democracy" and a "black day".

President Pranab Mukherjee signed the proclamation under Article 356 of the Constitution of India dismissing the INC-ruled State Government, the Chief Minister Harish Rawat and placing the Assembly under suspended animation on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet.

The Union Government was of the view that continuance of the Rawat government was "immoral and unconstitutional" after 18 March 2016, when the Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker declared the appropriation bill "passed" in controversial circumstances without allowing a division pressed for by 35 MLAs, including 9 rebel Congress legislators.

The Union Cabinet had held an emergency meeting on Saturday night presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had cut short a visit to Assam to return to the New Delhi for the purpose.

The Cabinet considered several reports received from Governor Krishan Kant Paul, who had described the political situation as volatile and expressed apprehensions over possible pandemonium during the scheduled trial of strength in the Assembly on Monday.

The purported CD of the sting operation conducted against the Chief Minister that was in public domain on Saturday was understood to have been factored into the decision of the Cabinet which found it as a case of horse trading.

Additionally Two Uttarakhand MLAs, one each from Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party were on 9 June suspended for cross-voting during the floor test that was held on 10 May. Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal suspended BJP MLA Bhim Lal Arya and INC MLA Rekha Arya.^[5]

Current Assembly[]

This is 4th Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) of the state. The last state elections were held in February 2017, when the Bharatiya Janata Party won an overwhelming majority of 57 seats in the 70-seat electoral legislature. The Indian National Congress has secured only 11 seats in 4th assembly. The Independents have bagged 2 seats.

Current party position in the Assembly[]

Current party position in the Assembly as of 4 July 2021:

List of current Assembly members[]

See also[]

• Government of Uttarakhand
• Governor of Uttarakhand
• Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Cabinet of Uttarakhand
• Interim Uttarakhand Assembly
• 1st Uttarakhand Assembly
• 2nd Uttarakhand Assembly
• 3rd Uttarakhand Assembly
• 4th Uttarakhand Assembly
• List of constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Parliament of India
• Lok Sabha
• Rajya Sabha
• State Legislature
• State Legislative Assemblies
• State Legislative Councils
• List of by-elections to the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

Notes[]

• ^A In the 2012 Assembly election, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal contested as "Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (P)" led by then party president . The original party name and the election symbol (chair) was frozen by the Election Commission of India following the factionism and leadership dispute within the party that led to its break-up. Its original name and party symbol were restored in 2017.

References[]

External links[]

• Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Election 2019 Result Website
• Elected Members of Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand, Official list Govt. of Uttarakhand.
• Members of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• President’s rule in Uttarakhand; Congress says ‘murder of democracy’