Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly

Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha
Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly ; Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha
6th Chhattisgarh Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
Leadership
Governor	Ramen Deka ; since 31 July 2024
Speaker	Raman Singh, BJP ; since 13 December 2023
Leader of the House; (Chief Minister)	Vishnu Deo Sai, BJP ; since 13 December 2023
Deputy Chief Minister; (Deputy Leader of the House)	Arun Sao, BJP; Vijay Sharma, BJP ; since 13 December 2023
Leader of the Opposition	Charan Das Mahant, INC ; since 16 December 2023
Structure
Seats	90
Political groups	Government (54) BJP (54) Opposition (36) INC (35) GGP (1)
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
First election	1 December 2003
Last election	7 and 17 November 2023
Next election	2028
Meeting place
	Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, Vidhan Sabha Bhavan, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Website
	cgvidhansabha.gov.in

The Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly or the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Chhattisgarh state in India.

The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Raipur, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of Legislative Assembly, which include 90 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies.^[1] Its term is 5 years, unless sooner dissolved.

History

The state of Chhattisgarh was created by the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act 2000,^[2] approved by the President of India on 25 August 2000. The Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha came into existence with the creation of the state on 1 November 2000. The first session of the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha was held at Jashpur hall of Rajkumar College in Raipur. Later, the Vidhan Sabha was shifted to the newly constructed Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha Bhavan at Vidhan Nagar, on Raipur–Baloda Bazar Road.^[1]
A new building for Vidhan Sabha is under construction at Sector 19, Atal Nagar behind Indravati Bhawan & Mahanadi Bhawan. The groundbreaking ceremony was done by Bhupesh Baghel on 29 August 2020 in the presence of leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and other ministers. The construction is currently halted since 2021 and all tenders are cancelled by the Government of Chhattisgarh due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Chhattisgarh. The inauguration is expected to be on or after 2025.^[3]^[4]

Leaders

Title	Name	Since
Governor	Ramen Deka	31 July 2024
Speaker	Dr. Raman Singh	19 December 2023
Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Vishnu Deo Sai	13 December 2023
Deputy Chief Minister	Arun Sao
Deputy Chief Minister	Vijay Sharma
Leader of Opposition	Charan Das Mahant	16 December 2023

List of Assemblies

Assembly	Year	Speaker	Chief Minister		Opposition Leader
1st^[a]	1998	Rajendra Prasad Shukla	Ajit Jogi	INC	Nand Kumar Sai	BJP
2nd	2003	Prem Prakash Pandey	Raman Singh	BJP	Mahendra Karma	INC
3rd	2008	Dharamlal Kaushik			Ravindra Choubey
4th	2013	Gaurishankar Agrawal			T. S. Singh Deo
5th	2018	Charan Das Mahant	Bhupesh Baghel	INC	Dharamlal Kaushik	BJP
5th	2018	Charan Das Mahant	Bhupesh Baghel	INC	Narayan Chandel^[6]	BJP
6th	2023	Raman Singh	Vishnu Deo Sai	BJP	Charan Das Mahant	INC

Members of Legislative Assembly

Source:^[7]
District	Constituency		Member of Legislative Assembly			Remarks
District	No.	Name	Name	Party		Remarks
Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur	1	Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST)	Renuka Singh		BJP
Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur	2	Manendragarh	Shyam Bihari Jaiswal		BJP
Koriya	3	Baikunthpur	Bhaiyalal Rajwade		BJP
Surajpur	4	Premnagar	Bhulan Singh Marabi		BJP
Surajpur	5	Bhatgaon	Laxmi Rajwade		BJP
Balrampur	6	Pratappur (ST)	Shakuntala Singh Portey		BJP
	7	Ramanujganj (ST)	Ramvichar Netam		BJP	Protem Speaker of state legislative assembly
	8	Samri	Uddheshwari Paikra		BJP
Surguja	9	Lundra (ST)	Prabodh Minz		BJP
	10	Ambikapur	Rajesh Agrawal		BJP
	11	Sitapur (ST)	Ramkumar Toppo		BJP
Jashpur	12	Jashpur (ST)	Raymuni Bhagat		BJP
	13	Kunkuri (ST)	Vishnudeo Sai		BJP	Chief Minister
	14	Pathalgaon (ST)	Gomati Sai		BJP
Raigarh	15	Lailunga (ST)	Vidyawati Sidar		INC
Raigarh	16	Raigarh	O. P. Choudhary		BJP
Sarangarh-Bilaigarh	17	Sarangarh (SC)	Uttari Ganpat Jangde		INC
Sarangarh-Bilaigarh	18	Kharsia	Umesh Patel		INC
Raigarh	19	Dharamjaigarh (ST)	Laljeet Singh Rathia		INC
Korba	20	Rampur (ST)	Phool Singh Rathiya		INC
	21	Korba	Lakhan Lal Dewangan		BJP
	22	Katghora	Premchand Patel		BJP
	23	Pali-Tanakhar (ST)	Tuleshwar Hira Singh Markam		GGP
Gaurela Pendra Marwahi	24	Marwahi (ST)	Pranav Kumar Marpachi		BJP
Gaurela Pendra Marwahi	25	Kota	Atal Shrivastava		INC
Mungeli	26	Lormi	Arun Sao		BJP
Mungeli	27	Mungeli (SC)	Punnulal Mohle		BJP
Bilaspur	28	Takhatpur	Dharmjeet Singh Thakur		BJP
	29	Bilha	Dharamlal Kaushik		BJP
	30	Bilaspur	Amar Agrawal		BJP
	31	Beltara	Sushant Shukla		BJP
	32	Masturi (SC)	Dilip Lahariya		INC
Janjgir-Champa	33	Akaltara	Raghavendra Kumar Singh		INC
Janjgir-Champa	34	Janjgir-Champa	Vyas Kashyap		INC
Sakti	35	Sakti	Charan Das Mahant		INC
	36	Chandrapur	Ram Kumar Yadav (Chhattisgarh politician)		INC
	37	Jaijaipur	Baleshwar Sahu		INC
Janjgir-Champa	38	Pamgarh (SC)	Sheshraj Harbans		INC
Mahasamund	39	Saraipali (SC)	Chaturi Nand		INC
	40	Basna	Sampat Agrawal		BJP
	41	Khallari	Dwarikadhish Yadav		INC
	42	Mahasamund	Yogeshwar Raju Sinha		BJP
Sarangarh-Bilaigarh	43	Bilaigarh (SC)	Kavita Pran Lahrey		INC
Baloda Bazar	44	Kasdol	Sandeep Sahu		INC
	45	Baloda Bazar	Tank Ram Verma		BJP
	46	Bhatapara	Inder Kumar Sao		INC
Raipur	47	Dharsiwa	Anuj Sharma		BJP
	48	Raipur Rural	Motilal Sahu		BJP
	49	Raipur City West	Rajesh Munat		BJP
	50	Raipur City North	Purandar Mishra		BJP
	51	Raipur City South	Brijmohan Agrawal		BJP	Resigned on 17 June 2024
	51	Raipur City South	Sunil Kumar Soni		BJP	By elected on 2024
	52	Arang	Guru Khushwant Saheb		BJP
	53	Abhanpur	Indra Kumar Sahu		BJP
Gariaband	54	Rajim	Rohit Sahu		BJP
Gariaband	55	Bindrawagarh (ST)	Janak Dhruw		INC
Dhamtari	56	Sihawa (ST)	Ambika Markam		INC
	57	Kurud	Ajay Chandrakar		BJP
	58	Dhamtari	Onkar Sahu		INC
Balod	59	Sanjari-Balod	Sangeeta Sinha		INC
	60	Dondi Lohara (ST)	Anila Bhendiya		INC
	61	Gunderdehi	Kunwer Singh Nishad		INC
Durg	62	Patan	Bhupesh Baghel		INC
	63	Durg Rural	Lalit Chandrakar		BJP
	64	Durg City	Gajendra Yadav		BJP
	65	Bhilai Nagar	Devender Singh Yadav		INC
	66	Vaishali Nagar	Rikesh Sen		BJP
	67	Ahiwara (SC)	Domanlal Korsewada		BJP
Bemetara	68	Saja	Ishwar Sahu		BJP
	69	Bemetara	Dipesh Sahu		BJP
	70	Navagarh (SC)	Dayaldas Baghel		BJP
Kabirdham	71	Pandariya	Bhawna Bohra		BJP
Kabirdham	72	Kawardha	Vijay Sharma		BJP
Rajnandgaon	73	Khairagarh	Yashoda Nilamber Verma		INC
	74	Dongargarh (SC)	Harshita Swami Baghel		INC
	75	Rajnandgaon	Dr. Raman Singh		BJP
	76	Dongargaon	Daleshwar Sahu		INC
	77	Khujji	Bholaram Sahu		INC
	78	Mohla-Manpur	Indrashah Mandavi		INC
Kanker	79	Antagarh (ST)	Vikram Usendi		BJP
	80	Bhanupratappur (ST)	Savitri Manoj Mandavi		INC
	81	Kanker (ST)	Asha Ram Netam		BJP
Kondagaon	82	Keshkal (ST)	Neelkanth Tekam		BJP
Kondagaon	83	Kondagaon (ST)	Lata Usendi		BJP
Narayanpur	84	Narayanpur (ST)	Kedar Nath Kashyap		BJP
Bastar	85	Bastar (ST)	Baghel Lakheshwar		INC
	86	Jagdalpur	Kiran Singh Deo		BJP
	87	Chitrakot (ST)	Vinayak Gotay		BJP
Dantewada	88	Dantewada (ST)	Chaitram Atami		BJP
Bijapur	89	Bijapur (ST)	Vikram Mandavi		INC
Sukma	90	Konta (ST)	Kawasi Lakhma		INC

Notes

^ The first Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh was constituted by the MLA's elected in the 1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Chhattisgarh.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly". Legislative Bodies in India website. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
^ "Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000". India Code.
^ "छत्तीसगढ़ में 270 करोड़ में बनेगा नया विधानसभा भवन भूमि पूजन आज". Nai Dunia (in Hindi). 29 August 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
^ PTI (13 May 2021). "Chhattisgarh cancels tenders for new assembly building, halts construction of major projects". ThePrint. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
^ "The Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000" (PDF). 2000. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
^ "Chhattisgarh BJP appoints new Leader of Opposition". The Hindu. 17 August 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
^ "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Result 2023: Full list of winners and losers constituency wise from BJP, Congress and other parties". Zee Business. 4 December 2023.

External links

[6] The first Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh was constituted by the MLA's elected in the 1998 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Chhattisgarh.^[5]

[chg-1] "Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly". Legislative Bodies in India website. Retrieved 9 December 2010.

[2] "Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000". India Code.

[3] "छत्तीसगढ़ में 270 करोड़ में बनेगा नया विधानसभा भवन भूमि पूजन आज". Nai Dunia (in Hindi). 29 August 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

[4] PTI (13 May 2021). "Chhattisgarh cancels tenders for new assembly building, halts construction of major projects". ThePrint. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

[MRA-5] "The Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2000" (PDF). 2000. p. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.

[7] "Chhattisgarh BJP appoints new Leader of Opposition". The Hindu. 17 August 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 5 November 2022.

[8] "Chhattisgarh Assembly Election Result 2023: Full list of winners and losers constituency wise from BJP, Congress and other parties". Zee Business. 4 December 2023.

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v t e Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly
Governor	Governor of Chhattisgarh
Vidhan Sabha	Speaker Leader of the House Leader of the Opposition
Members	Constituencies Former constituencies MLA Current Vidhan Sabha
Members	1st VS 2nd VS 3rd VS 4th VS 5th VS 6th VS
Elections	2003 2008 2013 2018 2023 by-elections
Legislative procedures	Resolution Act of Assembly Amendment of Constitution List Bill Appropriation Money Ordinance Private Member Budget Confidence and supply Motion of no confidence Loss of supply Cross-voting Division of the house Legislative Party Minority government Official Opposition President's rule Question Hour Session Simple majority Special majority State of Emergency Voice vote
Miscellaneous	State Government State Council of Ministers Delimitation Commission

v t e State of Chhattisgarh
Capital: Raipur (current) Nava Raipur (future)
State symbols	Emblem: Emblem of Chhattisgarh Anthem: Arpa Pairi Ke Dhar Animal: Wild water buffalo Bird: Common hill myna Fish: Walking catfish Flower: Marigold Tree: Sal tree Fruit: Jackfruit
History	Jogimara and Sitabenga Caves Dakshina Kosala Panduvanshi dynasty Chindaka Nagavanshi dynasty Kalachuri dynasty (Ratnapura - Raipur) Bastar Kingdom Nagpur Kingdom (Maratha invasion) Chhattisgarh Division Sonakhan rebellion Bhumkal rebellion Formation of Chhattisgarh state Naxal insurgency
Geography	Bailadila Range Maikal Hills Teerathgarh Falls Chitrakote Falls Upper Mahanadi basin
Governance	Legislature Chief Ministers Governors High Court Police Human Rights Commission
Topics	Education Election Language Music Tourism Highest point
Divisions	Raipur Bilaspur Durg Bastar Sarguja
Districts	Balod Baloda Bazar Balrampur Bastar Bemetara Bijapur Bilaspur Dantewada Dhamtari Durg Gariaban Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi Janjgir–Champa Jashpur Kawardha Kanker Kondagaon Korba Koriya Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur Mahasamund Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki Mungeli Narayanpur Raigarh Raipur Rajnandgaon Sarangarh-Bilaigarh Sakti Sukma Surajpur Surguja
Cities	Ambikapur Bhilai Bilaspur Charoda Dhamtari Durg Jagdalpur Korba Nava Raipur Raipur Raigarh Rajnandgaon
Chhattisgarh

v t e Elections in Chhattisgarh
General elections	2004 2009 2014 2019 2024
Legislative Assembly	2003 2008 2013 2018 2023
Local elections	... 2009 2015 2019–20 2025
See also: Elections in India Elections in Madhya Pradesh

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