6th Delhi Assembly
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Legislative Assembly of Delhi (Vidhan Sabha of Delhi) | |
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Type | |
Type | |
Term limits | Feb 2015 - Jan 2020 |
Leadership | |
Speaker of the Assembly | |
Dy. Speaker | |
Chief Minister | |
Leader of the House | |
Leader of the Opposition | |
Secretary | P. N. Mishra |
Structure | |
Seats | 70 |
Political groups | AAP: 62 seats BJP: 4 seats
Vacant 4 seats |
Length of term | 5 years |
Elections | |
First-past-the-post | |
Last election | 7 February 2015 |
Meeting place | |
Old Secretariat , Delhi, India | |
Website | |
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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]
Election and Government formation[edit]
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.[4][5]
In April, 2015, the speaker of the house recognized Vijender Gupta as the leader of opposition in the house.[6]
As on 28 August 2017, AAP had 66 MLA, 4 belongs to BJP.
BJP won the Rajouri Garden assembly constituency in Feb 2017 By Poll Election.
AAP won the Bawana assembly constituency in Aug 2017 By Poll Election.
Electors[edit]
Male | Female | Others | Total | |
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Electors | 73,89,089 | 59,19,127 | 5,999 | 1,33,09,078 |
Electors who voted | - | - | - | - |
Polling percentage | - | - | - | 67.08% |
Candidates[edit]
Male | Female | Others | Total | |
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Candidates | 607 | 66 | 0 | 673 |
Elected | 64 | 6 | 0 | 70 |
Forfeited deposits | - | - | - | - |
Important members[edit]
# | From | To | Position | Name | Party |
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01 | 2015 | Incumbent | Chief Minister | Arvind Kejriwal | AAP |
02 | 2015 | Incumbent | Speaker | Ram Niwas Goel | AAP |
03 | 2015 | Incumbent | Deputy Speaker | Rakhi Birla | AAP |
04 | 2015 | Incumbent | Leader of the House | Arvind Kejriwal | AAP |
05 | 2015 | Incumbent | Leader of the Opposition | Vijender Gupta | BJP |
Cabinet ministers[edit]
# | From | To | Name | Position / Portfolio / ministry |
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01 | 2015 | Incumbent | Arvind Kejriwal | Chief Minister, Water |
02 | 2015 | Incumbent | Manish Sisodia |
Deputy Chief Minister, Tourism, education, finance, planning, land & building, vigilance, services, women & child, art, culture & languages, and all other departments not specifically allotted to any minister |
03 | 2015 | Incumbent | Satyendra Kumar Jain |
Health, industries, public work department, power, home, urban development |
04 | 2015 | Incumbent | Gopal Rai |
Employment, development, labour, general administration department, irrigation & flood control |
05 | 2015 | Incumbent | Imran Hussain |
Food & supply, environment & forest, election |
06 | 2015 | Incumbent | Rajendra Pal Gautam |
Gurudwara elections, SC & ST, social welfare, cooperative |
07 | 2015 | Incumbent | Kailash Gahlot |
Administrative reforms, information & technology, law, justice & legislative affairs, transport, revenue |
List of members[edit]
Keys: AAP (61) BJP (3) Shiromani Akali Dal (1)
See also[edit]
- First Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Second Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Third Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Fourth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Fifth Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Seventh Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- Government of Delhi
- Legislative Assembly of Delhi
- 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013 & 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.
- Government of India
- Politics of India
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Election Results". Election Commission of India official website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ "Statistical Reports" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ "Comprehensive Election results". Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ "Arvind Kejriwal takes oath". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Six Ministers sworn in". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ "BJP's Vijendra Gupta Named Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly". NDTV. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ↑ ahmad, sheikh; siddique (8 January 2020). "silver lining". Cast. 65: 1 – via saeed. No-Transparency included due to personal agenda.
- ↑ "Arvind Kejriwal's cabinet". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- ↑ "Election result". Election commission of India website. Retrieved 8 January 2017.